Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress by the clerks. In reporting the health of the Republic, the message said; "It is impossible to characterize it other than one of general peace and prosperity. . . . In some quarters our diplomacy is vexed with difficult and as yet unsolved problems, but nowhere [the clerk paused] are we met with armed conflict...
...gentlemen met in rational argument last week and settled a railway dispute by giving $15,000,000 additional wages each year to the 89,000 conductors and trainmen of the 50 Eastern railroads. And by so much, of course, they added to the yearly operating expenses of those lines and deprived investors of their mete of profits. Their decision (it went into effect Dec. 1) was the first made under the Watson-Parker Railroad Act, and, although obedience by employers and workers is optional, they have set a precedent for labor arguments. This Act, passed last year, provides a code...
Ileana, Princess of Rumania, is the girl friend. The villain in the case is the New York World, which last week published "a fairy story from life." It told how Ileana met her "Prince Charming" in the form of Cadet Glasgow at a West Point dance in October; how she returned two weeks later with her mother to watch him march in the rain; how, the day before sailing, she rushed up to West Point to have luncheon with Cadet Glasgow (and others). She had invited him to luncheon in Manhattan, but Superintendent Merch B. Stewart of West Point...
...Foreign Secretary, whose back is like a ramrod and whose monocle is more than glacial. Cordial greetings passed between them. Soon they sat down to discuss the territorial aspirations of Italy, the problems of Rhineland evacuation and many another point which has cropped up since they last met (TIME, Oct. 11). The so august and so friendly statesmen were engaged, last week, in settling the details of their joint policy during the mid-December session of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. There Germany will be represented and Spain will continue to hold aloof-having recently closed...
Team B, which met defeat last Saturday at the hands of a strong Newton Center aggregation, will clash with the new University Club group of Boston on the University courts at 3 o'clock. This team, which made its debut last Saturday, is a new-comer in the league and has not yet had a chance to prove its strength. E. D. Pratt '27 and W. J. Iselin '29 have already played off their matches, which they won 3-1 and 3-0, A. G. Thatcher '29 and J. C. Rueter '28 will complete the line...