Word: summons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, at a mass meeting, last week, in dauntless fighting terms did President Matheus of I falz Province summon sturdy topers to rescue the winelands of the Rhine and Moselle from "the incipient necessity of their being planted with noxious tomatoes and cabbage plants...
From Geneva, Switzerland, press correspondents sent out despatches that provoked excitement in the U. S. Senate. It appeared that at the instance of Austen Chamberlain, the Council of the League of Nations took measures to summon a meeting of nations next September to which it was understood that the U. S. would be invited, arid at which the matter of the U. S. reservations in joining the World Court would be clarified and the necessary acceptance gained for the U. S. reservations...
...President promptly indicated that he did not see that the Senate resolution changed matters a particle, and he would not summon a conference as long as the hopeless deadlock continued...
...instant the Prince sprawled at full length?unhorsed by Fate. Then he rushed to summon aid for "Oh, Dear," whose instantaneous death seemed at first incredible...
...great fortune rests upon a pre-War record of sound financial ability, though vastly increased during the War. He has been Minister of Munitions (1914), Minister of the Liberated Regions (for the devastated French War areas) (1922), and Minister of Commerce (1924). Now he has announced that he will summon a consulting board of the chief financial experts of France to advise upon his fiscal program...