Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respects of the President, the Secretary of State, the Lend-Lease Administrator, the Librarian of Congress and the British Ambassador were paid last week to a radio reporter. At a banquet given for him at the Waldorf-Astoria, some 1,100 persons of note twice rose to their feet in tribute to him. CBS's Edward R. (for Roscoe) Murrow, back from three years in grim London, was clearly given to understand that he had deserved well of the Republic...
...last week's ornamental banquet, presided over by CBS's silver-haired Standby Elmer Davis, two debts were implicitly acknowledged. One acknowledgment came from the Administration to the men who had made the urgent plight of Britain palpable to millions. Said Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish to Ed Murrow: "You have destroyed . . . the superstition that what is done beyond 3,000 miles of water is not realty done...
...Copley Banquet Tonight...
Tonight Robert P. Patterson, Under-Secretary of War, will speak at a banquet at the Copley-Plaza on "The Defense of America." Later in the evening he will discuss defense strikes with Mr. Oliver over the NBC Red Network...
That evening at a banquet at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, Robert P. Patterson, Under-Secretary of War, will address the conference on "The Defense of America" at the only sesion held away from the Business School. The Chairman will be Dean James M. Landis of the Harvard Law School...