Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Notwithstanding the fact that he was elected by the Democratic Party, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS . . . PERMITTED NEGROES TO COME TO THE WHITE HOUSE BANQUET TABLE AND SLEEP IN THE WHITE HOUSE BEDS. . . THE LITTLE DOLE WHICH HE GAVE TO THE SOUTH WILL NEVER PERMIT HIM AND MRS. ROOSEVELT TO PUT SOCIAL EQUALITY IN THE SOUTH AS THEY HAVE DONE IN THE NORTH AND IN PENNSYLVANIA...
Last week, speaking at a Manhattan banquet of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, ruddy, banjo-eyed Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander A. Troyanovsky skipped lightly across History and Political Philosophy. He quoted Abraham Lincoln as to how often one can fool all & some of the people.* He unearthed the fact that Russia's Empress Catherine II was disgusted by the American Revolution and refused to recognize the U. S. He said that the U. S. Declaration of Independence was the "first official recognition of the equality of all human beings, including...
...Eleonora Sears was chosen by Tennist May Sutton as the most attractive and best dressed woman in the U. S. Just before she sailed for England last month, she was guest of honor at a Boston banquet, hailed as U. S. Sportswoman No. 1. Currently Sportswoman Sears is interested in squash racquets, walking, tennis and riding, though she no longer rides in steeplechases on her favorite horse Barney...
...compared favorably in many ways with modern efforts of the same school. Having divorced his first wife in La Grange, Ky. last fortnight (TIME, March 9), Griffith was married for the second time last week to a 26-year-old amateur actress named Evelyn Marjorie Baldwin. At the Academy Banquet he received a special award for his "contribution to the advancement of the motion picture." In reply, the man who made The Birth of a Nation (1915) traced the history of the cinema industry in a recital that grew more & more dramatic until he finished by gulping back his tears...
...spring, when the first boat goes down the river, the doctor goes with it to visit his brother, who runs the biggest hospital in Montreal. Called on for a speech at a medical banquet, Dr. Luke commits a faux pas by using the opportunity to demand a hospital for Moosetown. When he gets back, he finds that the trading company which runs Moosetown has put the town sheriff on his track for practicing medicine without the license he is too poor to pay for and has installed a resident physician of its own. It appears to Dr. Luke that...