Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland, the Advising Board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met and chose a successor to Warren S. Stone, their President (TIME, June...
...thanks that at last he had something to sign. For he had been in a difficult position. He was attending a League Conference, pledged to have nothing to do with the League. He was dealing with a group of interests more diverse, and men more scheming than he had met even in his long career in U. S. politics. Then, too, he was an old man, 74, who had served 17 years in the House as Congressman from Ohio, then 6 years in the Senate (1909-15), and has already rounded out more than another 4 years in the House...
...Democratic Convention in Manhattan, Charles Horace Mayo was loudly mentioned (though his name was never put in nomination) as a candidate both for the Presidency and the Vice Presidency of the U. S.-an honor as extraordinary as it would have been inappropriate. Still reticent, he has met the recognition that sometimes overtakes inarticulate men who have lost themselves in their work and look up, astonished, after many years, to find that they are celebrated. It was he who compelled the staff of the Hospital to attend to "the small things in every single department that could possibly contribute...
...messenger entered. He brought a note written in pencil which read: 'Please make me a sketch of our beloved Queen as she lies there on her bed surrounded by the flowers she loved.' 'A.' It was from Alexandra . . . It was at Stanmore that I first met Prince Francis of Teck, the brother of Queen Mary, probably the handsomest man I have ever seen...
...Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) Melville E. Stone, onetime General Manager of the Associated Press, was made a Doctor of Laws (as was Abraham Lincoln before him) on the scene where, 80 years ago, his father and mother met for the first time as students...