Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates. Next day, in Manhattan, the Executive Committee of the American Federation of Labor met and chose a successor to serve out Mr. Gompers' term. There were three candidates: James Duncan, for 30 years Mr. Gompers' lieutenant; Matthew Woll, President of the International Photo-Engravers Union; William Green, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, a man but recently come into prominence. All were Vice Presidents of the Federation and hence of the Executive Committee which chose the President...
...these shores a middle-aged Swedish spinster who had written novels. Her friend Hawthorne said that she was worthy of being the maiden aunt of the whole human race; at all events her name, Frederika Bremer, forgotten now, was then known in every house. Here and there she visited, met most of the famed people in the U. S., observed the quaint customs of the land, described it all in letters to her sister back in Sweden. Her letters were published soon after and widely read. Now they have been republished...
...Herald-Tribune, John Cotton Dana, Newark librarian, and Professor-Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley of the University of California-had made a profuse but neat collection of tales, poems and tag-end tid-bits from great writers of all ages. Pages of parallel quotations were entitled Some Women I Have Met and How Men Make Love in Novels. There was a Booklover's Calendar for the month. All this-160 pages of vivid and readable literary high spots for 25? the copy...
...hard by sacrosanct old Connecticut Hall on the Yale campus, great was the shout that went up (TIME, Nov. 3, Nov. 17). Faculty, alumni, undergraduates blended their voices in the outcry: "Stop it! Tear it down! Hush hall!" Moved, the Corporation ordered that the walls cease to rise. Committees met and met, discussing what was wise and proper to be done. Dr. James R. Angell, Yale's diplomatic chief executive, went hither and thither, explaining, dissuading...
Died. U. S. Supreme Court Justice Mahlon Pitney, retired, 66, in Washington, after a long illness. Two strokes of paralysis forced him to resign from the Supreme Court bench two years ago. He was appointed in 1912 by President Taft, whom he met at a dinner given by the Governor of New Jersey. At that dinner he charmed Mr. Taft with pungent anecdotes; they ate, reminisced, chortled together. Soon after, Justice Pitney was notified of his appointment. He had previously sat on the Supreme Bench of New Jersey...