Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Harris of Georgia and a remarkable delegation met the Roosevelt train as it pulled into Atlanta. Senator Harris, the spokesman, said: "We didn't get Governor Smith, but we got you to lead us four years from...
...General resigned with his entire Cabinet and in a passion. A short time previously he had met with refusal-blunt refusal-when he had demanded the resignation of his own Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, the Rt. Hon. Walter B. Madeley. Blast Madeley's impertinence! If he wouldn't resign alone, General Hertzog knew well enough how to force the fellow out by bringing down his whole Cabinet. The crash was called, last week, and for a very good reason, a "nigger crisis...
Last week the national committee met in Manhattan with several hundred physicians, psychologists, educators and social workers from all parts of the country. They complained of the insecurity of their finances. Money for their work has come haphazardly. Hence to get a regular income they organized the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene. They want a million dollar endowment. Already they have $150,000 pledged, a condition that made Humanitarian Beers, now 52, glow with happy zeal...
...four daughters of Bernard Douras, Brooklyn (N. Y.) judge. She was educated in a Sacred Heart Convent and the Ziegfeld Follies, drawn for magazine covers, and snapped one day on the beach by a newsreel photographer. Louis J. Selznick, then Napoleon of producers, starred her; later she met William Randolph Hearst and joined his company, the Cosmopolitan. Now with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she plays golf, stutters when excited, drives a Packard roadster, has a bulldog named inevitably, Buddy. On the lot a butler and cook give her lunch in a $35,000 stucco bungalow; she gets dressed in a room...
...Ford Sinclair, oilman, heavy contributor to the Republican war chest of 1920, and John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, celebrated a day of mutual goodwill. It was Father & Son Day at the Newman School in Lakewood, N. J., where Messrs. Sinclair & Raskob and many another bigwig met sons at school...