Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Young was a member of the Preparatory Committee which met in Geneva last April to plan the coming conference. The other members of the committee representing the United States were Mr. A.W. Gilbert, Commissioner of Agriculture for Massachusetts and Bon: D.F. Houston...
...William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs: "When he first appeared upon the stage, as plain Mr. Hicks ?the Joynson is an accretion from his marriage?he seems to have had painful tendencies of a Radical order and sat in the Highbury Parliament which met at the Highbury Athenaeum in North London as Radical member for Peterborough. . . . He came first into prominence as a crusading Evangelical...
Compromise. The German Cabinet soon gave Dr. Stresemann carte blanche. The French Cabinet met in three long secret sessions and finally transmitted to M. Briand "new instructions." The shade of Alfred Nobel must have rejoiced as his three Peace prize winners signed a convention adjusting their differences on a hotel table. With them, to bind the bargain, signed Signer Scialoja of Italy, Foreign Minister Vandervelde of Belgium and dapper Viscount Ishii of Japan, League Council members all. The role of Emile Vandervelde, veteran Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, in last week's negotiations was candidly revealed by Dr. Stresemann who said...
...found 1) Ministers out of employment through consolidation have already been so completely placed that there is even a shortage. 2) While most U.S. and Canadian churches have lately experienced financial stress, the United Church not only has met heavy organization expense, but also has a surplus. 3) United Church government has avoided favoritism of any one branch, yet not been so dispassionate as to be unjust to specially able workers taken over from any field. 4) General Councils, while marked by wide difference of opinion, have not split on denominational lines; prejudices were transcended...
Life Insurance. Presidents of U.S. life insurance companies met at Manhattan last week and reported that every other person in this country now carries life insurance, that these 58,000,000 people own 108,000,000 policies, that if every policy were paid their total value would be one-third more than all the money which the U. S. population earns in a year. As an actuarial matter the presidents deplored the 1,432,000 U.S. deaths they expect this year. Last year 1,357,000 people died...