Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 1,000 people crowded into Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week to attend a banquet in honor of a Chiropractor. Otto Hermann Kahn, financier and music patron, lauded the Chiropractor. So did William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. So did dapper James John Walker, mayor and candidate for mayor of New York City. Finally the Chiropractor himself arose and talked about ''the mechanization of the art." To the art of kneading and pummeling spines he did not refer, but to the art of Music. For the speaker was Joseph N. Weber...
...many diplomats so often assert-is a profession. Last week, like a clan of impeccable Harley Street physicians shuddering over the success of some popular "bone setter," the established diplomatic practitioners of London winced anew at Charles Gates Dawes. Publicly, with hearty fist-bangs upon a London banquet table, the U. S. Ambassador had just rasped and barked...
...season came to an official close with the regular football banquet held during December at the Harvard Club of Boston. It was announced that Horween would return for another season and the speakers of the evening were W. J. Bingham '16. Director of Athletics, Horween, French, and Barrett...
...mellow pathos of commencement tide, the sentimental verbiage of commencement speeches were missing last week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At a graduating class banquet stocky, well-groomed Prof. Robert Emmons Rogers arose and shattered whatever mood of revery or reminiscence was present...
Birthday. Louis Wiley, 60, business manager of the New York Times; in Rochester, N. Y., where he got his start on the Post-Express. The local Press Club which he helped found in 1888 gave him a banquet. Encomiums poured in signed by Hoover, Taft, Coolidge, Smith, Roosevelt, Eastman, Pulitzer, Swope, Bok, Block, Bernstein, Cohn, Wise, Lazansky...