Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clynes was distinguished by a soft cap, Mr. Thomas remained inseparable from his aged and worn derby. The King received Mr. Macdonald in an audience lasting more than an hour, during which he charged him to form a Cabinet. When Mr. Macdonald came out of the Palace he was met by hundreds of cheering partisans...
...people of the United States," he said, "with the enactment of the Jones Law in 1916, formally and officially promised to recognize the independence of the Philippine Islands as soon as a stable government could be established. This requirement has been fully met, While America was bending all her energies toward the prosecution of the War; through the agency of a Filipino controlled government, deriving its powers from the peaceful suffrage of the people, American sovereignty and international responsibilities were made secure. No reason exists now why there should be further delay in the granting of that which the Filipinos...
While B. U. will not be able to offer the opposition that the Pittsburg Yellow-Jackets would have furnished, Coach O'Hare expects his charges to better their early season showing. The Terriers were completely outclassed by the Crimson skaters when they met on December 18, nineteen Harvard players taking part in the 8 to 1 rout. They showed some improvement, however, in holding Princeton to a 4 to 0 score and some more when the Maple A. A. six gained only a 4 to 1 margin over them. Since this game, which was played two weeks...
...movement was there, and most of them looked forward to certain failure on "Swope's wild goose chase." Swope, striding about, exclaimed: "I'd rather put this over than anything else I ever did! They think I can't do it!" The evening before the National Committee met, the New Yorkers had dinner at the Shoreham Hotel. Swope sat with Charles Michelson, Charles S. Hand and John J. Leary, three of the World's ablest correspondents, at his elbow. Every few minutes he would turn to one or another of these correspondents : "Hand?call up New Hampshire...
...wandered over Europe cultivating friends and harvesting interviews* in a way that was the envy of many less gifted correspondents. Pershing, Lloyd George, Foch, Northcliffe, Joffre, Clemenceau, King Constantine, Wilson were his material. The nature of his acquaintanceship with these men is well illustrated by such despatches as: "I met the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, casually in Downing Street today. He was coming out from luncheon, and I asked him What he thought of Lord Grey's letter." Or an interview with Foch 'during the dangerous German drive of 1918: "General Foch, before answering, took...