Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fergusons were placed on Postmaster General Farley's right at the Dallas banquet next night, so Amon Carter sat at the press table. The itinerant politicians went on to San Antonio, Houston, Uvalde (the Garner home town), saw a rodeo on a border ranch, then headed back to Washington. That, thought some of Amon Carter's friends, was where Amon Carter wished he were going, on official business...
This was a threat that no railroadman (except the heads of the seven key roads) could ignore- particularly Daniel Willard, whose efficient and progressive B. & O. Messrs. Prince & Barriger planned to dump into the lap of its big rival, Pennsylvania. Last week at a Baltimore banquet, Lawyer John J. Cornwell, onetime Governor of West Virginia and now B. & O.'s general counsel, told the world what was going through Daniel Willard's long head. "This so-called Prince plan . . . is destructive in every phase except as to the interests of the seven big railroads in the country...
Yesterday, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania refused to attend a banquet convoked to felicitate the newly crowned postmaster of Pittsburgh. He objected to the ousting, on purely partisan grounds, of the man who had preceded him, and whose term was not yet consummated. "There are," said Senator Reed, "other cases in which this arbitrary removal has been called into action in Pennsylvania." And there are, although Senator Reed did not mention them, numerous cases in other states, as, for example, the postmaster of Chicago, who was uprooted from a useful career in the same bland and cavalier fashion...
...this they expected to crowd into General Justo's five-day visit, also attending Argentine horse races, motor races, the Buenos Aires Inerouzonicbnnar and a big banquet every night. At the first banquet Guest Justo keynoted "international solidarity," Host Vargas "peaceful co-existence...
...Lawrence Oilman's authoritative program notes. Economy was the keynote of the Philadelphia concert where Stokowski. almost in a single breath, mourned the passing of the Orchestra's president, Alexander Van Rensselaer, and pleaded for support so that the orchestra might go on. This week at a banquet promoted by William Curtis Bok, the Philadelphia Orchestra's unsold season tickets were auctioned in an attempt to save the players a pay-cut of 19%. With its orchestra at stake Philadelphia is overlooking the excursions of ils fair-haired conductor who has just been...