Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senior Banquet at Lowell House...
...Class Day Banquet and dancing in the Houses. The price of the banquet, $2.00 per plate, includes admission to the concert and the dancing...
After drinking the King's toast and lighting their banquet cigars, the members of the National Liberal Club settled back in their chairs last week to hear Britain's most important Liberal Cabinet Minister formally renounce his faith. It was a moment to make the late great William Ewart Gladstone turn in his grave, but, full of turtle soup and tawny port, the National Liberals took it calmly. All his life a Free Trader, Sir John Simon. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, was explaining his conversion to a high tariff policy...
Berlin's American Chamber of Commerce a little cold turkey with their banquet chicken. After a long, oft-told analysis of Germany's uncomfortable position in international finance, he slipped out two new threats. Much of Germany's commercial borrowings, he said, have gone not into German business, but directly to pay reparations. "The entire conglomeration of political obligations," he declared, "weighs like a mountain on international trade." On the theory that all Germany's outstanding debts are political, President Schacht concluded that "an attempt must be made to reach an agreement," i. e. to cancel...
...autumn, defection of half the Academy's membership in the dissension over paycuts caused a shortage of cash, made it appear that there might be no Oscars at all. Last month. 30 members of the Academy put up $50 each for statuets and the Academy's annual banquet. The winners...