Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington broadcast, Idaho's Borah warned the U. S. not to be moved by "the din of screeching and incoherent propaganda" into lining up with European democracies against totalitarian governments. And in Newark, N. J. Republican National Committee Chairman John D. M. Hamilton spoke at a banquet in honor of New Jersey's seven Republican Representatives and Senatorial Candidate W. Warren Barbour. Mr. Hamilton's thesis: "In recent months there has been a tremendous flight of votes from the Democratic to the Republican Party"; and unless the Republicans succeed in winning 1938 Congressional elections, those elections might...
Last week Detroit honored Dr. Naismith, now 76, with a banquet at which the original 1893 players, who 32 years ago organized into teams representing Adams "Y" and the Detroit Athletic Club, stuffed themselves with chicken. Afterwards the two teams, refereed by Inventor Naismith, played basketball as it was when baskets were peach baskets. Shoving and tackling under the original catch-as-catch-can rules, the hearty players (the oldest was 61, the youngest 53) battled for all they were worth. When the game was over the score was 2-to-2. Unanimously the players decided to postpone the overtime...
There will be an introductory luncheon on Friday and a banquet Friday night at which two guests will speak...
...Marckwald, which was changed in 1916 to the Richard Whitney Co. During the War he worked for the Food Administration in Washington. At the twenty-fifth reunion of his class he was acknowledged one of its most prominent members by being chosen one of the two speakers at the banquet...
...that time Paul McNutt was sitting down to a 2,000-place banquet at Indianapolis, where Jack Dolan of Indiana's Democratic Editorial Association and Governor Clifford Townsend garlanded him with effusive laurel wreaths of oratory. Several days later silver-haired Mr. McNutt was in Washington, for an even more stunning event. To Washington, accustomed as it is to flamboyant entertaining, the banquet given Paul McNutt at the Mayflower Hotel was sensational...