Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention started off unofficially on a Sunday afternoon with a rousing pep meeting staged by a coterie of Left-wing professors, most of whose leaders are from Teachers College, Columbia. Organized this year as the John Dewey Society, these Left-wing professors succeeded in packing the banquet hall of the Hotel Jefferson with 1,500 sympathetic superintendents. Earnest Professor George Sylvester Counts sniped at four notable targets: 1) William Randolph Hearst: "A foe of freedom of assembly, speech and press"; 2) Alfred E. Smith: "Once a friend of Education and the common man, he has sold out to privilege...
...gross exaggeration is the current business credo, reiterated at a thousand banquet tables, that fear of Administration policies has held up capital expansion. With the possible exception of utilities, any U. S. industry would expand if there were discernible markets for additional products...
President Conant will be speaking during the next few days in Chicago, where he will address the annual banquet of the Progressive Education Society on the occasion of its three day conference...
After the banquet Artist Taft told friends of his latest encounter with State authorities. Commissioned to do an Illinois memorial of the Lincoln-Douglas debate, he was told that in his preliminary sketch the figure of Stephen Douglas was not prominent enough. "I told them that the fault was not mine but God's," chuckled Lorado Taft, "and they haven't answered...
...banquets have a speakers' table, and no exception was the banquet given last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria by the trust division of the American Bankers Association. But from the speakers' table came no speeches. Trust-division President Merrel P. Callaway announced that the evening's entertainment would be "something more acceptable." At 10:12 p.m., expectant bankers & guests saw the gold plush curtains of the ballroom stage draw slowly apart, reveal a piano against which leaned Miss Helen Jepson. A pretty, blonde soprano who reached radio fame with Rudy Vallee and Paul Whiteman, Miss...