Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Leave. At 5 p.m. that day Mayor Yung gave a banquet for Russians and Chinese. Many toasts were drunk; but a ghost sat at the groaning board. The Russians complained that the Chinese made many "transparent allusions" to the murder of Chinese Engineer Chang Hsin-fu, killed near Fushun last January. The Chinese believe the Russians were responsible. The Russians believe that Chinese Communists were guilty. Reported Chneider: "The Chinese kept telling us that they would guarantee our safety to Mukden, and then the Chinese would remind us that the Red Army gave the same pledge to their...
...speaker "of national importance to be announced later" will share after-dinner honors with President Conant at an informal banquet Tuesday evening, June 4, at the Copley-Plaza in Boston. He may well be one of the honorary degree recipients about whom speculation usually centers in the pre-Commencement weeks...
...concert on the steps of Widener by the Glee Club later in the afternoon will precede the main banquet that evening...
...Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons spread his neo-Babylonian banquet for the Security Councilmen at the Grand Concourse Plaza Hotel, Iran seemed far away indeed. Marshaled (vainly) to convince the U.N. that they should not move out of the hospitable Bronx were steaks, caviar, champagne and a three-piece band to play Meadowland for Delegate Gromyko. But no sooner had the last mellow tones subsided than the jarring discords of the supposedly settled Iran issue again filled...
Marking the official end of the winter sports season, the Varsity basketball team held its annual dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston Tuesday night, while Coach Hal Ulen's swimmers are preparing for their banquet tonight...