Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House except Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston. Accounts differ and probably no one, except the participants, knows exactly whether the Coolidges visited their indoor Christmas tree and exchanged presents before or after breakfast. They went to the First Congregational Church for services. They met Senator "Jim" Watson at the door of the church and he sat with them. The only guests at luncheon and at dinner in the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Stearns. After dinner the Coolidges spent three hours with disabled veterans at Walter Reed Hospital and saw the first exhibition of Abraham Lincoln...
...Admiralty barge took off Frank B. Kellogg, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and Mrs. Kellogg, who were met by Post Wheeler, U. S. Charge d'Affaires in London, and several U. S. officials. When Ambassador Kellogg was landed and had climbed the cold, clammy stone steps onto the quay, he found only six British and six American journalists to greet...
...regarded as certain that the Ways and Means Committee of the House would take up the case of a soldier bonus before considering Secretary Mellon's tax reduction plan. When the Committee met in its first session, a motion was made to consider tax reduction first. At once the advocates of the bonus made five counter propositions-for considering the bonus first, for considering the bonus when Congress reassembles on Jan. 3, etc.-and all five, were defeated...
...Diplomatic Corps in Peking decided to wash its hands of the dispute between Sun and the Peking Government as to who shall have control of the surplus funds from Chinese customs at Canton after meeting the foreign obligations. So long as foriegn payments are met the Diplomats do not mind who has the money, it was reported. Dr. Sun will not, however, be permitted to put his hands on the Canton Customs House...
...second class collar advertisement. On his return to the home grounds he frustrates a man with oilless oil wells; the town and his childhood sweetheart collapse at his feet. Indifferent acting and direction shattered what started out to be a simple, sincere narrative of the type so seldom met with in the movies...