Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Approximately 50 men will be present at the final banquet of the International Council in the Phillips Brooks House tonight at 7.15 o'clock. The occasion will be very informal and no special topic has been set for discussion...
Throughout the week Amir Amanullah pursued a strenuous routine. At his request all banquet speeches were cut to bare minimums of compliment. Thus time was gained in which His Majesty visited numerous industrial plants and later the great Tempelhofer flying field. There he was presented with a 10-passenger 3-motored plane worth some $60,000. Doubtless the makers hope for future cash orders from Afghanistan, but last week "The Light of the World" did not so much as take a trial sweep in his expensive toy. What seemed to interest His Majesty most was a military review, during which...
...which lent point to a bit of political theorizing, indulged in last week at an American Bankers' Association banquet, by President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Frank's boldly rational suggestion was that Congressional lobbyists should be recognized, dignified, legalized and set up as a Third House of Congress-"House of Technologists" was the best name he could think of at the moment. Let business, finance, agriculture, labor, transportation, education, etc., etc., elect their own variously specialized representatives to such a Third House, said Dr. Frank, so that the lines of economic force...
Mayors. Before a banquet audience of 559 Alsace-Lorraine mayors, M. Poincaré rose up to speak, in Strasbourg. He who can be inflexible and glacial was now charming, and soon forensically vivid. Raising his glass in a preliminary toast, he cried: "I drink to the Alsace that is passionately, invincibly French...
James Gilliland Simpson, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, visiting the U. S., attended the dinner of the Church Club, in Manhattan. After the banquet was over, he rose to his feet, looked fixedly toward the ceiling and delivered a short oration on U. S. customs and eccentricities. Said he: "... I have not yet summoned up courage enough to enthrone myself like Buddha in one of your shoeshine parlors...