Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There they were met by an honor guard of boy scouts, by bands, by marchers carrying ten-foot cornstalks. That evening, General Dawes delivered his speech. It dealt with the farm question...
After several days of tangled and futile discussions, the Reichstag met to take a final vote. The galleries of the chamber were crowded to their maximum capacity with diplomats, distinguished visitors and breathless journalists. On the floor of the chamber, 441 Reichstag members assembled. A two-thirds majority, or 294 votes, was needed to enact certain parts of the Experts' Plan legislation?the mortgaging of the Reich railways to the Allies, for example. Failure to obtain the required majority would have meant dissolution of the Reichstag and a general election...
...Geneva in Switzerland, home of the League of Nations, the Fifth Assembly of the League met last week to consider matters of mighty moment...
...That the idea of the League of Nations has met opposition from skeptics is a matter of small importance, since skepticism is nothing but intellectual sloth or lack of insight. There is a tendency in certain quarters to oppose the idea of patriotism to the idea of international solidarity, as if they were conflicting and irreconcilable conceptions. The League of Nations does not supersede individual countries; it extends them, develops them and enlarges them, and countries that are members of the League do not lose an iota of these inalienable sovereign rights which are their protection and their pride...
...Soon after 1 p. m. on a hot August day, the Prince of Wales alighted from the train, was met by Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes and Colonel C. E. G. C. Charlton, Military Attache at the British Embassy. Thousands of people assembled on the concourse leading from the station, hoping for a glimpse of the British Heir Apparent. Their patience was scantily rewarded, for the Prince walked quickly through the President's Room and entered the President's closed automobile, at the door of which stood Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright. As the Prince passed through...