Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader, was asked to the White House for the night. Pennsylvania's Senator Reed was asked to report for breakfast next morning. Virginia's Senator Glass hustled up from his Lynchburg home to answer a Hoover summons. Massachusetts' Representative Treadway had to leave an Amherst alumni banquet because his President wanted him quickly in Washington. Acting Secretary of the Treasury Mills kept popping in and out of the President's office every few minutes. President Hoover talked over long-distance telephone with Senator Borah in Idaho, Senator Robinson in Arkansas, Representative Hawley in Oregon. Senator Vandenberg...
Naturally, the new President of France, 74-year-old Paul Doumer. entertained the comparatively young Dutch Queen (she is only 51) at his Elysee Palace. Next came a return banquet at the Dutch Legation- and that...
Recently at a Soviet banquet British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey noticed with a start that his fork bore the coat of arms of Great Britain, had presumably been stolen from the pre-Revolution British Embassy at Petrograd (TIME...
Suave, Sir Esmond made no protest at the banquet. Resolute, he exerted quiet pressure later. Last week in the British House of Commons Capt. Victor Cazalet, Oxonian, M. P. who greatly admires money, popped this question...
What the late Chairman Gary would have liked best about his city's jubilee was a banquet at the Hotel Gary at which was formed the Pioneer Society of Gary, composed of men who helped build the city a quarter century ago. Presiding was William Palmer Gleason who superintended the construction of the steel plants. Near him sat H. S. Norton, now president of the Commercial Club who as agent for the Gary Land Co. did as much as anybody to develop the city. Present also was William Albert Wirt, the first and only superintendent of schools, who devised...