Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Madrid. American Ambassador Ogden Hammond met Miss Elder and Pilot Haldeman at Getafe Airfield. Someone filled her arms with flowers. They lunched with the Royal Spanish Air Club; were visited at the Embassy by General Primo De Rivera, Dictator Premier; left by train for Bayonne, France, whence they would fly to Paris...
Nominee. The G. O. Politicians of Philadelphia who admire and obey Senator-elect William Scott Vare, met last week and nominated James Montgomery Beck for the U. S. House of Representatives. Mr. Beck used to be (1900-1903) Assistant U. S. Attorney General. He used to be (1921-1925) U. S. Solicitor General. He is an officer of the Legion d' Honneur, a Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgian). Since a Vare-machine nomination is tantamount to election, President Charles B. Hall of the Philadelphia City Council announced: "With Senator Vare in the Upper House...
...eventually succeeded in effecting a compromise acceptable to each side. Ever since the last Imperial Conference, which created George V King of the Union of South Africa, General Hertzog has held that the legitimate aspirations of the country and a free and independent unit in the Commonwealth had been met. But he was bitterly attacked by both sides in his stand on the flag issue...
Lawyers. Henri Torres, chief counsel for the defense, florid, bloated, dynamic, put his histrionic abilities to the test when, leaping past his colleagues into the middle of the courtroom, he brandished a revolver, produced from under his voluminous black gown. Shrieks of terror mingled with gasps met this display. Flappers sat with blanched faces; bewhiskered Hebrews rocked back and forth with supressed excitement; Ukrainians, more pallid than ever, glanced nervously through their narrow eyes. Maitre Torres, aiming at a chair, pulled the trigger?there was a dull click, followed by sighs of relief. He was attempting to prove that...
...Pennsylvania was an incidental in a stretch of four games played in eight days. On Saturday, October 29, the University engaged the Brittania Football Club at Montreal. Two days later the University of Michigan eleven visited the Boston Baseball Grounds, and two days after that, Pennsylvania and Harvard met on the Polo Grounds in New York. Three days later, on Saturday, November 5, Columbia came to Cambridge. The Crimson flashed in triumph in each of these four games, and then the eleven took a rest...