Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gathered in the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House for a ceremonial banquet to Librarian Roden were the University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott, Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart, 250 other citizens. Librarian Roden bashfully received a volume of testimonial letters from 175 of his colleagues throughout the world. Said President Hutchins: "We have met tonight to honor one of the great educators of the Middle West. ... The Chicago Public Library was one of the first to realize its educational as distinguished from its storage functions...
...band will hold its annual Band Club banquet at the Union Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'clock. Color movies of the band's performance at one of the games this fall will be shown. Leroy Anderson has been invited to act as toastmaster for the evening...
...known since the passing of hoary Emperor Franz Josef, reigned in Vienna for one night last week in his favorite Palace of Schönbrunn. For the first time since the World War the historic gold-banded dinner service of the House of Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist who would like to restore the Habsburgs with...
...banquet last week was given to celebrate the creation of another Empire, that which Italy has carved in Ethiopia. Countess Edda was accompanied by her husband, Il Duce's protégé: the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. This amiable and rather plump young man has had difficulty in acquiring the mien of his father-in-law the Dictator, but has now learned to frown almost without visible effort. It was a proud moment when even the U. S., British and French ministers to Austria raised their wine glasses as Chancellor Schuschnigg proposed the toast to Mussolini...
Entertained by the personal reminiscences of Gene Tunney, remarks by Dick Harlow, Tom Bolles, Jim Gaffney, and Bill Bingham, 150 former "H" men gathered for their annual banquet in the Varsity Club last night...