Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portly Persian with a bushy black beard handled the gavel as the Assembly of the League of Nations met in Geneva, last week, to talk "Security," "Disarmament" and then the "United States of Europe." P. is for Persia and alphabetically it was P.'s turn to preside. Nervously Persia's swart Prince Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan Foroughi assumed the chair. Perspiring, he constantly wiped his brow with a bright pink silk handkerchief. Then diffidently, as though conscious that the words of a Prince were as chaff to these commoners, he sped the Assembly's, proceedings with a dash of Orient...
...Jaspar of Belgium was the intermediary. He came to me in five minutes with an advance that met...
...told me you had a very kind heart,' said poor Jaspar, 'but we have never met a man like...
...course the British demands were not met in toto?as one would suppose from Chancellor Snowden's words?but only by about 82%. Moreover the concession won ($9,520,000 per annum) was relatively picayune, less than ¼% of the balancing figure of the British budget. These facts were used last week in a slashing attack on the Laborite Chancellor by Conservative Sir Josiah Stamp. One of London's most potent tycoons. Sir Josiah served with Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan in drafting the Young Plan which Mr. Snowden would not endorse at The Hague until...
Five years ago when the British Labor Party was younger, louder and relatively impotent, Britain's Trades Union Congress met in annual convention. Red flags were much in evidence, Communists were greeted enthusiastically. British Laborites presented a gold watch to Moscow's Tomsky. And little lean Ben Tillett, one of the founders of the Labor Party, made a speech which, according to one observer "was so violent, frantic and ruthless in his call for a revolution that many persons in the audience drifted away startled and horrified...