Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that a band of Michigan settlers proudly named a rude village Ypsilanti. Last week some 7,000 of its citizens met to see the presentation of a marble bust of Demetrios Ypsilanti to the city by the Archontic Order of the Ahepa, Greek-American patriotic society, 3,500 visiting Ahepans paraded for two miles. Greek Aviator Nick Manteris, of Detroit, dropped a memorial wreath...
...Congress had met to deal with the grave crisis resulting from the recent assassination of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). Until President Calles mounted the Tribune and began his 5,000-word address, Mexicans were half persuaded that he would attempt to succeed himself as President, though Mexico's Constitution forbids...
...distinguished by concentration upon pattern and composition and by a unique green which he uses in his flesh tints. Lavery has painted the British Royal family with notable success; a man of strong and erratic enthusiasms, he last week proposed to portray Prize-fighter Gene Tunney whom he met at a banquet. "He is the favorite of the Gods," exclaimed Sir John, "Someone ... I myself . . . should paint him for the Royal Academy...
...Berlin, last fortnight, European film producers met in weighty conclave. When each and every one had taken his seat in the auditorium of the Prussian Diet, the First International Film Congress was declared to be in session. More strictly honest, President Leopold Gutmann would have substituted "European" for "International." For the U. S. which produces 57% of the world's pictures was not represented. Deliberately, invitations had been mailed to U. S. producers too late to allow them to reach Berlin for the Congress...
...offices of corporations at Boston, Schenectady, Chicago and New York of the importance assumed by the private secretary of the chief executive. Often I have mistaken the secretary for the president of the corporation. His suavity and pomposity have forced from me the most excessive politeness, whereas when I met the president I have been induced to give him only perfunctory attention, as if he were a person of no importance. The American private secretary is unique. He is unique and efficient, seeming to assume all the responsibility for the corporation by which he is employed...