Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great warmer of the lukewarm Sino-Allied relations -if he had brought with him enough assurances of material help. Just what he had brought was a military secret. But in Chungking, as in Moscow, Wendell Willkie loudly called for greater United Nations action. At the Gissimo's banquet he said...
Since April, George Christopher has been Packard's president. On May 2 he startled all Detroit, broke the last chunks of labor-management ice with a joint banquet for 800 company officials, union leaders and Army-Navy brass hats. Since then it has been easy. Packard employes wear little "Work to Win" badges,* paste windshield stickers on their cars. In the rambling Packard plants, huge 15-ft. red, white & blue billboards blazon new worker-composed slogans each week, twin scoreboards tally each department's efficiency and production. At plant entrances toy soldiers march across miniature battlefields to show...
...Harriman, representing President Roosevelt, sat in on the conferences with instructions that Roosevelt would be in agreement with "all decisions taken here by Mr. Churchill." Whether there were any decisions remains to be seen. But if there were differences of opinion they were covered over afterward in a stage banquet in the Kremlin's huge and somber Catherine Hall...
Veteran, bespectacled General Ho Kuo-kwang, commander of China's air defenses, breathed these thankful words last week at a banquet in Chungking. All day there had been mass meetings, speeches, athletic contests. Forty-eight boys & girls, the youngest only seven, had leaped bravely from a parachute tower. Winner of the contest was nine-year-old Sung Kuo-shua. The celebration was of Chinese Air Force Day-and the blossoming of new hope in China's old, war-weary land...
...banquet, a play, and dancing always highlight this festivity. In the winter time the Harvard Huns usually meet at least two or three times with the Radcliffe Frauleins and dance waltzes, polkas, folkdances, and even a few good foxtrots