Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message to Congress had said that such a bill was in process of preparation and recommended favorable consideration. He later announced, however, that the bill was not to be considered an administration measure. It was passed by the House (TIME, March 15, CONGRESS) but in the Senate met a stubborn resistance. The minority of the railway executives, led by Leonor F. Loree, President of the Delaware & Hudson, took up the fight. The National Association of Manufacturers and the American Farm Bureau Federation also opposed the bill. They argued that at no place in the cascade of arrangements for settlement...
Delegates representing all the Great Powers, except Russia, and most of the potent minor nations, met at Geneva last week, forming an assembly whose 22-word title sketched its purpose: The Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, being a Commission to prepare for a Conference on the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments...
...Turkey, Shah Reza of Persia, the Aga Kahn of Bombay, the Sultan of Morocco, King Abdulla of Transjordania, Imam Yahya of Yemen, the Idrisi of Asir, Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz, Sheik Achmet of the Senussites and Abd-El-Krim. ... 5) The Califate Congress which met last week has already been repudiated by Sultan Ibn Saud, who has summoned a rival Califate Congress to meet at Mecca, next month - presumably on the theory that he seized the Califate from the Kings of the Hejaz when he overthrew them last year...
...afternoon will to a large extent be given over to recreation. The Conferences have always been a place where athletes from all colleges have met a friendly competition. Not only are there all the usual facilities for athletics, but in addition there is an excellent golf course, and beautiful country for hiking...
...happy exit from the enigma in further curricular jugglings. Bringing pragmatism into education, he would replace as much of the historical survey work of general fields as is now given by courses which would deal more with situations than with subjects. To understand how a nation or civilization met situations similar to those which now face the citizen of the modern world is to him very worth while...