Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held an indignation meeting last week and long before their ire had begun to evaporate, composed a three-page letter to Mr. Coolidge, telling him, and asking him, this and that in language of a type which Presidents seldom encounter first hand. The vexed gentlemen were newsgatherers who had met twice a week with Mr. Coolidge for four years. All that time they had guarded his confidential remarks with unwavering integrity, even masking the words which he did wish to reach the public by having them issue from the mouth of that journalistic ragdoll, "the White House Spokesman." Now, said...
Like many others, eight men over 60, and one younger, have worked, played, thought this summer. Last week they met again at Washington for the first autumn sitting of the U. S. Supreme Court. Eight justices received scant press notice, but Chief Jus, tice William Howard Taft was, as usual, quizzed. Said a reporter: "How is Prohibition working out in Canada?" Answered the Chief Justice: "My dear boy, I have been out of politics a good many years, but I still know enough about politics to know what not to talk about...
...Justice Stone has a smart son, Marshall H. Stone, who received his Ph. D. from Harvard at 22 (1925). He likewise received the Sheldon Scholarship that same year, which took him to Paris, where he met Emmy M. Portmann, onetime Cleveland artist. Their engagement was announced last week. At present, Son Stone is an instructor in mathematics at Columbia, where his father was onetime (1910-24) Dean of the Law School. fMal S. Daugherty, brother of the one-time- (1921-24) Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty now on trial in Manhattan, has figured as an important witness in the present...
Professional football was once a joke. It is now a riddle. Last week in Manhattan met the various Tsars of this sport to debate on future plans, regulations. Their talk was backed by a history and menaced by a mountain...
...Story.* When Captain Frémont entered California in 1846, 25 troopers, trained to a hair mounted on stallions, wearing gold-braided green uniforms, met him in the mountains. Impressed, Frémont complimented the burly Swiss who led them and the latter, Johann August Sutter, conducted Frémont to an eminence to behold New Helvetia, the largest richest one-man domain in the New World...