Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chain. Manning volunteered to take a lifeboat with seven men across a quarter-mile of raging, ice-strewn seas to rescue the Italian crew. The 32 men were saved. On his return to New York, he was given a hero's welcome, a ticker-tape parade and a banquet...
Before the flash and smoke of the charge was gone, Truman rose before a Jewish National Fund banquet and threw the switch on members of Congress who voted to cut military and foreign-aid expenditures. "There are some people who would rather play politics than have strong defenses," he said. "They would rather embarrass the White House than checkmate the Kremlin...
Following a get-together party in the Mellon quadrangle after the panels, a banquet will be held at the Harvard Club of Boston. Associate Dean Stanley F. Teele will make a report to the alumni, and President Conant will be the main speaker of the evening. The President has not announced his topic...
...point on which many another of Mamie Eisenhower's friends gave testimony. To illustrate, more than one of them recalled a Washington banquet for General George Marshall at which Ambassador Joseph C. Grew served as toastmaster. Amid one burst of emotional oratory, Grew's tongue slipped: General Marshall, he said, wanted nothing more than to retire to Leesburg with Mrs. Eisenhower. Flustered, as the room rang with laughter, the ambassador halted to apologize "to the general." Smiled Mamie: "Which general...
...Although both groups are congregational, i.e., each church runs its own affairs, church leaders found some strong doctrinal differences in the way of unity. Example: the Disciples have historically believed that baptism is necessary for salvation, the Baptists have not. Said Layman Jack Sutton, speaking at a Disciples' banquet: "If we could heave out the pastors, the Disciples and the Baptists would have no trouble in getting together...