Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sinister Society. In Chicago, the International Association for the Protection of the Rights of Lefthanders assembled for their first annual banquet, elected everybody vice president in honor of Southpaw Henry Wallace...
Although not noted for their high salaries, Transcript employes enjoyed the security of Civil Service employes. Once every 50 years the Transcript treated employes to a banquet. One of the co-owners, Henry D. Eustis, drove to work for years in a limousine, donned overalls to bale waste paper in the pressroom...
John P. Marquand '14, author of the current best seller "H. M. Pulham Esq.", will speak, and Robert S. Hillyer '17. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric will read a special poem, at the occasion of the annual banquet of the Harvard Advocate, commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the magazine...
Emmet Lucey is no ordinary prelate. Most Catholic bishops have actively opposed the Child Labor Amendment* but he has publicly championed it. Catholics are seldom noted for interdenominational gestures-but at the farewell banquet of his California parish before his departure for the see of Amarillo in 1934, nine of the ten speakers were non-Catholics. Many Catholic conservatives, including some in his new archdiocese, have warred on C.I.O. -but he has backed it from its birth. Most Catholic prelates in the U. S. are isolationists-but Emmet Lucey says: "Isolation is a spiritual, cultural and industrial impossibility. To profess...
...American Society of Bakery Engineers held a convention which would have convinced many a veteran convention-goer that he had come down with the d.t.s. No salesmen of bakers' equipment set up bars to dispense alcoholic cheer. Toasts were drunk in tomato juice. Even at the biggest banquet the 30 men at the speakers' table decorously drank cocktails of milk, without even a spot of gin to take away a taste abhorred by most convention guests...