Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July, two years ago, when the unionized employes of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. went on strike. It was April, this year, when other miners in western Pennsylvania went on strike. It was bitter November last week, when some 400 officials of the American Federation of Labor and subsidiaries met in Pittsburgh to hear of the hardships and grievances of the Pennsylvania miners and their striking comrades in West Virginia and Ohio who, with dependents, brought the total number of sufferers...
...next era in his life was spent as an exiled revolutionary. In 1908 he had met Trotsky in Vienna and together they founded the Pravda, now flourishing in Moscow under the editorship of Nikolai Bukharin. On one of his many trips to Russia under a pseudonym he was taken prisoner and exiled for life to Siberia. The 1917 revolution freed him. Returning to Petrograd, he became a member of the municipal council under the Kerensky regime, and a few months later became one of the leading Bolshevist victors...
...distinguished visitors were met at the station by the leaders of the Austrian governmental hierarchy. A state luncheon followed, at which the German statesmen were formally introduced to Dr. Michael Hainisch, President of the Austrian Republic. In the evening the Chancellor, Dr. Ignaz Seipel, opened the old Imperial Foreign Office, also known as the Ballplatz, for an official reception...
...first chairman of the National Monetary Commission, appointed by Congest in 1908 to study the banking situation throughout the world with a view to revising American banking methods. The Federal Reserve system was a direct outgrowth of the commission's findings, although the proposal of reserve banks met with hostility when first proposed, and was not immediately adopted...
...Saturday afternoon another Harvard team met another Yale defeat. To the general public the fact will probably mean just that: another lost game for Harvard, and one more instance of its gridiron decline. To all Harvard men, however,--and to all Yale men who were in the Stadium that afternoon--it will mean much more; it will mean that another Harvard team lived up to the fighting standards of previous Harvard teams, refusing to be influenced by predicted scores and ceasing to play the game only at the final whistle...