Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With preparations continuing at a rapid rate for the H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs to be held in Cambridge on the 26th and 27th of this month, the choice of speakers for the opening luncheon and the main banquet was determined yesterday...
Leverett Saltonstall '14, prominent Massachusetts lawyer and legislator, will open the ceremonies at the first luncheon on Friday, to be held at the Union. For the banquet, which will take place in the Adams House dining hall, William L. Ransom, noted New York lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association, will share the speaking honors with President Conant. At the final plenary session, where the work of the Conference is to be summed up and coordinated, Adolphe A. Berle, Jr. '13, New York City Chamberlain and one of the original group of "brain-trusters," will hold the floor...
With the opening of the second half year, plans for the second annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conferences on Public Affairs on the 26th and 27th of this month have almost reached completion. President Conant has agreed to speak at the banquet on Friday night and a total of 18 guests have already accepted definitely...
...Mills Novelty Co. in annual business. Into the development of "1937 World Series," Rockola put $250,000, paid $5,000 more last week for the personal appearance and blessing of Pitcher Dizzy Dean. Popular with "World Series" players, gamboling Dizzy Dean drew catcalls at the Association's annual banquet when he devoted two out of three minutes of his speech to plugging Rock...
...loud rap sounded one evening last week at the door of a banquet room in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria in which sat Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, Munitions Tycoon Alexis Felix du Pont, Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand...