Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autogiro to complete the 50 hours of solo flying necessary for a license. As he landed, he put on the brakes too hard, cracked up in a somersault which ruined his plane, soaked him in gasoline, bruised his hand. Pooh-poohing the injury, he hustled off to a banquet, remarked: "I am used to getting hurt. In 20 years of polo-playing I was knocked out 15 times and sometimes for long periods. I got a fractured skull, a broken back and other injuries, and a little thing like this does not bother me." Two days later he took...
...Congress' banquet there were further alarms. President S. Wells Utley of Detroit Steel Casting Co. prophesied: "This coming campaign ... is one of the great decisive battles of the human race, and upon it hangs the future of our civilization. . . ." President Alex Dow of Detroit Edison Co. rambled through the question of the relations of women with business. The program closed on a foreboding note. Mme Alexandrine Cantacuzene, granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, talked on "Property Confiscation under a Revolutionary Government...
...This week U. S. cigar stores will simultaneously put forth fresh placards, counter displays, handouts plugging cigars with such slogans as "The Friendly Gesture-Have a Cigar" and "A Good Cigar Makes Every Meal a Banquet." Other slogans, placards, pamphlets will appear every ten days...
Until Columbia University's trustees began to consume a Manhattan banquet last week, they scrupulously refused to emit the names of those to whom they had decided to award the annual Pulitzer Prizes lor Journalism and for belles-lettres...
Thomas S. Lamont, Morgan partner and Harvard graduate, will take part in the discussion at the Banking Table. Herbert Bayward Swope, prominent journalist, author, and public servant, will preside at the final banquet. Louis Domeratzky of the Bureau of Foreign Trade, will take part in the discussion at the Foreign Trade Table...