Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Winchell whirled about the country. He talked with big & little Brazilians, to U.S. officers and men stationed in Brazil. In São Paulo's big industrial plants he made brief translated talks to the workers. His biggest official hit was at a press banquet in Rio when he raised his cup of coffee to the level of his Brazilian host's cup and gave this toast: "Never above you-never beneath you-always beside you." The Brazilian press adopted the toast as a slogan...
...University, which is acting as host to the delegation, has been the scene of its numerous conferences since last Sunday. Tomorrow's banquet will mark the end of the four day reunion...
...first time since the founding of the college in 1766, Dartmouth seniors will take part in a February graduation. Four hundred members will sit at a class banquet in Thayer Hall as part of simplified commencement exercises under an accelerated program...
...Farley, whose 1940 break with the President is now final and irretrievable, was not riding trains out of love for travel or banquet chicken. In Omaha he conferred with practically every important Nebraska Democrat; at a political dinner he got in a sharp dig at appointment of Republicans to war agency jobs (a sore spot with many a Democratic veteran). In St. Louis he talked to ex-Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann and sidekick Robert Hannegan, whose local machine used to be one of the slickest in the party...
...away from the Stevens. Army guests live up to eight in a room, according to barracks regulations requiring 60 sq. ft. of floor space and 720 cu. ft. of air space per man. Army cots go into the rooms, Army chow lines with scrubbed tables replace silver & linen in banquet halls. All the Army wants is the bare walls-sometimes the hard-to-get big kitchen utensils...