Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golden Anniversary Banquet of the Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette observed his own golden anniversary as a newsman by saying: "In these 50 years we have seen what seemed a successful system grow slowly and mount steadily to a fair approximation of justice. Then out of God knows where came the change. . . . Where did the money come from? And where the devil has it gone? I am without rudder, anchor or compass. I don't know what is the matter...
When Chancellor Schuschnigg reached London this week Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, as he always does, turned the visiting political lion over to Lord & Lady Londonderry for a thoroughgoing banquet. Said Chancellor Schuschnigg next morning: "We have not come to ask for a loan," then asked leery British statesmen about Otto's chances...
Ontario papers have been roasting "Mitch" for his recent affront to King George in refusing to attend the viceregal banquet of Lieutenant Governor Dr. Herbert Bruce (TIME, Feb. 11). At the Legislature's opening last week "Mitch" definitely welshed. He had threatened to deny George V's representative the royal salute. It crashed and thundered as Royal Canadian Dragoons saluted in Dr. Bruce by a legal fiction "the person of the King." Admirers of "Mitch" had expected him to bar the Lieutenant Governor from Ontario's Throne. Instead dignified old Dr. Bruce, with radiant young Mrs. Bruce...
...faster and the dance grew hotter, she stripped off her dress bit by bit, finally emerged in a skirt and brassière of tobacco leaves-about enough to make six cigars (see cut). Later Governor Sholtz of Florida, Mayor Chancey of Tampa and many another bigwig attended a banquet in honor of a few feeble old cigarmakers who still remembered Señor Don Gavino Gutierrez...
Young, wiry Mr. Grubb, who is the nephew of Yachtsman Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, is being boomed for president of the New York Stock Exchange. At a big testimonial banquet for the most popular Curb president in years, Richard Whitney, noting such reports about his possible successor, generously declared: "I sincerely hope that is right and E. Burd Grubb will be a president of the New York Stock Exchange-and soon...