Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John J. Raskob of General Motors Corporation gave a great banquet in Manhattan last week to Professor Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman of Columbia University. Invited to attend were more than 500 potent U. S. businessmen, financiers & economists-from Vice President Norman I. Adams of the National Shawmut Bank, Boston, to President L. S. Zimmerman of the Maryland Trust Co., Baltimore. They came less to eat than to hear Professor Seligman explain the first thorough analysis of the installment selling problem...
...College Teas Association will meet for tea this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in the Fogg Museum of Art, it has been announced. All officers of Instruction and Administration in the University are invited to attend...
...Faculty has been divided into six groups, each of which will be especially invited to one tea. This arrangement will make it possible for students to know who will be present on specific days, so that they may attend the teas when there are members of the Faculty present whom they wish to meet...
...meal at which President Coolidge received Mr. Lorimer been dinner instead of breakfast, a prediction by Mayor Thompson would have come true. In 1910, just prior to Mr. Lorimer's ejection from the Senate, Theodore Roosevelt refused to attend a club dinner in Chicago until an invitation to Mr. Lorimer was withdrawn. Said Mayor Thompson : "Roosevelt is riding for a fall. He will never get to the White House again. I predict that 'Billy' Lorimer will dine with a (rood Republican President in the White House. And I hope I'm there...
...induced the two state legislatures to order the tunnel built. Their tunnel commissions chose Holland's plans and made him chief engineer. His wife last week told how he worked: "Evening after evening he remained at work. Our dinner hour was always uncertain. If we induced him to attend the theatre, he always went back to the tunnel afterward, spending hours in the field offices and personally supervising the work." It exhausted him and he died, 1924, of heart failure. The states made his tunnel a horizontal shaft over his memory...