Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midday last week, in the banquet hall of the Central Trust Co., Chicago, there was a banquet. Seymour Parker Gilbert, "Dawes plan' administrator, sat down. He was guest of honor. Vice President Dawes, president of the Central Trust Co., sat down. He was host. Samuel Insull, James A. Patten, Alexander Hamilton Revell, Julius Rosenwald, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because...
With the opulent triumph of their game in the field of college sports, one is allowed to suspect that the American Football Coaches' Association has become somewhat smugly arrogant. "There is still plenty of room for the development of football," said Major John L. Griffln at the annual banquet of the association arguing from the increase in college population and the abundance of money. And he went on to assert that "even if football were not fun, it would be worthwhile as a check on the danger of the growth of America becoming weak and fiabby...
Pushing back his chair at a banquet of the Maine Society of New York, Congressman Carroll L. Beedy of Maine rose and raged at the press through a microphone...
...This company was a pioneer in the first two of these fields and made a contribution of immense value. Here again in this third field can it render to business a further inestimable service by the example which it sets." While Mr. Rockefeller was preparing for the banquet his father, aged 88, was enroute to his winter home in Florida. At Savannah, Ga. his train stopped for 15 minutes and deferential reporters sidled into his car. They asked the beaming old man whom they saw for a statement. He smiled and read to them a tract in his modulated voice...
...Rockefeller, who assiduously guards the privacy of his family life, last week used the summer's experience to illustrate that corporations as well as individuals must have character training. He spoke at the sixth annual banquet of the Twenty-six Broadway Club, composed of employes and executives of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Chairman George H. Jones and President Walter Clark Teagle of the corporation spoke; Mrs. Rockefeller sat at the dinner table...