Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...met Mussolini when I was in Italy two weeks ago and we exchanged views on a multiplicity of subjects. The varied qualities of his virile and sympathetic mind need no praise from me. I found him full of the most sublime faith in the future improvement of our social, economic and industrial conditions, and Italians can rejoice in conditions in Italian industry today...
...review the progress of the past year the Central Executive Committee, the highest organ of the Soviet Government, met in the Uritsky Palace, Leningrad, which, as St. Petersburg and later Petrograd, was the capital of Russia under the Tsars...
...Uritsky Palace, onetime Taurid Palace, was built by Catherine the Great for her lover, Gregory Aleksandrovitch Potemkin. It was there, 21 years ago, that the first Duma (Parliament) met, only to be suppressed by the fiat of the Autocrat of All the Russias, Nicholas...
Said Tenor Gigli, on tour, in Winnipeg, Man.: "I met the Baroness while in Berlin last summer and our acquaintance developed into strong friendship...
...York City against Justice William J. Gaynor in 1909, Mr. Bannard was described as "a wheel-horse."* Busy-body reporters trying to color his personality, inquired: "What is you favorite form of exercise?" The reply: "None. I tell you I'm the damnedest, most uninteresting man you ever met!" He is also, however, a onetime President of the New York Trust Co. When the Merchants' Trust was closed in 1905, he, as receiver, paid back every depositor with interest in four months. He served on the New York City Board of Education, because, like his classmate & good friend...