Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most stay-at-home Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, 75-year-old Bachelor James Clark McReynolds, last week stirred from his Washington apartment to attend an alumni banquet at his alma mater, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. What brought Alumnus McReynolds (Class of '82) and 500 other alumni back to Vanderbilt was a long-awaited, long-dreaded piece of news. At 77, their Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland, the Grand Old Man of Southern Education, was going to retire...
Wrote Col. Lindbergh to his friend, Banker Thomas W. Lamont, who made the principal speech at a banquet in Manhattan on the anniversary: "I am embarrassed to think of you being asked to devote your time and energy to preparing a speech for the anniversary of my flight to Paris. I believe that the past should not be turned into an obligation for the future; and ceremonies for celebrating past events almost invariably become an obligation for those taking part in them...
Tomorrow evening at 6:30 o'clock, the club will hold its annual banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston, with 130 members and guests expected. At this time, many will be elected to the group, and next year's officers will be chosen...
President Conant, Fells Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, and William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, will be the principal speakers at the first annual banquet of the Guardian this evening...
Smith Clark, for twenty years a janitor at Phillips Brooks House, received a diploma for his many years of faithful service and a check last night at the annual P. B. H. banquet...