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Word: banqueteer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the music men were astonishingly serious. They religiously attended a series of luncheons and dinners which was climaxed by the 35th annual banquet of the National Association of Music Merchants. To soothe string and wind instrument makers who have been nettled in past years by the fact that piano players have dominated the banquet entertainment, NAMM this year packed the bill with cornetists, harpists, marimba and accordion players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Merchants of Music | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...done for Packard motor. Last week in Chicago, Steinway's ace front man, baldish Roman de Majewski, suavely entertained buyers with the champagne that Steinway always serves. Disdaining most of the convention's activity, President Theodore E. Steinway failed to show up for the final banquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Merchants of Music | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...York World-Telegram had reported that a charge of anti-Semitism was being whispered against Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, based on assertions that Jews were ignored at the Cleveland convention, that no Jew had sat on the dais with the new chairman at a post-convention banquet for him in Manhattan. Last week newshawks asked John Hamilton about the rumors. Obviously primed with his points, if not with his metaphors, the jut-jawed Republican Chairman barked: "There is not an iota of truth in such a thing, and it is a deliberate attempt by those other people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Unholy Issue | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...supplied special free trips to the two great bridges being constructed across San Francisco Harbor. The Glad Tiding Temple Bible Institute's motorized loudspeaker serenaded the dentists with the refrain: "Oh, when we all pull together, together, together, how happy we will be." At the dentists' main banquet the St. Francis Hotel presented a huge confection in the shape of a full denture, cookies shaped like molars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Teeth Up | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...House of Commons, was more than ready to hear that he was about to resign. Stanley Baldwin stepped into his limousine at last and was driven 35 miles to the House of Commons where only his henchmen cheered. That night he went to the 100th anniversary banquet of the City of London Conservative Party organization, was greeted by the refrain, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" and made a speech such as only frankly bumbling Stanley Baldwin can get away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jolly Good Fellow | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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