Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ways & Means. In a back-room political conference, the G. O. P. members of the House Ways & Means Committee met the revolt against the Tariff Bill by holding additional secret hearings last week. Before them appeared Congressmen from farm states to state the price (i.e., upward revision on pet commodities) they would demand to support the measure on the House floor. Patiently the committee heard them ask for greater duties on casein, canned tomatoes, potatoes, live cattle, hides, blackstrap, dairy products...
Director Schofield asked Capone if he had met such notorious Philadelphians as Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff. Replied Capone: ";No, but I know them intimately...
Hague supporters rioted jubilantly in the streets. The Reform headquarters were raided and wrecked. The morning after election Burkitt called to congratulate a Hague police captain at his station. Leaping to his feet, the officer met his well-wisher with "Now you lousy faker, get to hell out of here." Thereupon the "Jeffersonian Democrat" was shunted into the street, to be cursed and stoned by a Hague crowd...
...Manette le Blan thereafter won the British Ladies' Title. Joyce Wethered, whose impersonality sometimes is tantamount to genteel insolence, plays golf for amusement and crowds do not amuse her. But last week on St. Andrew's course in Scotland she played again for a championship. Again she met Glenna Collett, again she defeated her. Thus the British Woman's championship cup preserved its distinction of never having been won by an American...
They lately met again in Kansas City after years during which Ace Wolff was an engineer for the Mercedes and Junker concerns. Play-managing did not appeal to Ace Wolff so strongly as the chance to return to the air which was offered him in Sioux City by Arthur S. Hanford Jr. of Hanford Tri-State Air Lines...