Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently undismayed by A. F. of L. inroads on University employees, the Harvard University Employees' Representative Association met last night in the banquet Hall of the Elks' Building in Central Square to adopt a constitution and rededicate themselves to the principles of an inside union run by the employees for the employees...
...engaged couple were honored guests at the birthday banquet and the old gentleman beamed at them from the head of the table. Proud as Punch was the ex-Emperor at two telegrams of congratulation-so proud that he let his equerry tell the press about them. Both came from Britain. One was from the officers of the 1st The Royal Dragoons, whose honorary colonel he was till the War.* The other was from relatives who 22 years ago scorned him as unworthy of chivalry by having his banner, surcoat, helmet and sword removed from the chapel of the Order...
Last week Mrs. Vanderlip, widow of the Manhattan banker and a pillar of the Manhattan Swedenborgian church, presided at the Manhattan Swedenborg banquet to which President Roosevelt sent a praiseful telegram. In Boston, Swedenborgians dined in their Church of the New7 Jerusalem on Beacon Hill. In Philadelphia, Episcopalian Joseph Fort Newton spoke at a Swedenborg gathering in the University Club, while in nearby suburban Bryn Athyn, Swedenborgians of the schismatic General Church of the New Jerusalem held a dinner in the assembly hall of their slowly-building cathedral. These Swedenborgians have a bishop-George de Charms-whereas the main body...
...Majority Leader Alben Barkley the filibuster was not the most serious Southern reaction to his allowing an anti-lynching bill to reach the Senate floor. Because he faces a Senatorial primary in Kentucky next August he left Washington and the filibuster to attend a testimonial banquet in his honor at Louisville's Brown Hotel. Governor A. B. ("Happy'') Chandler, who was put into office with Alben Barkley's help, declined to attend. Instead popular "Happy"' Chandler was given a luncheon the same day, at which he announced his willingness to serve Kentucky "in any other...
...Harvard delegates seemed to indicate that the new officers would bring the benefits of a "new deal" back to Cambridge, and would at last contribute more constructive thinking to the intellectual life of the University. But the recent speech of the National Chairman at the Leverett House banquet seems to hold dangers for such contribution...