Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel banquet tables gleamed, politicians and businessmen made speeches, a pastor prayed, breathless messenger boys brought in sheaves of cables and telegrams from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, many another bigwig. Powel Crosley Jr., founder-president of Crosley Radio Corp. and owner of WLW, headed a six-hour program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw...
...Cable '09 and Dean B. S. Hurlburt '87 will address the banquet this evening in the Union which will celebrate the thirty-sixth anniversary of the founding of the CRIMSON. Barrett Wendell '77 will speak on the Magenta...
Most famed citizen whom educators got to take up their cry was Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Whirling into Columbus, she attended a tea and a banquet, chatted with students, educators, relief workers and Girl Scouts, addressed a convention of insurance agents, made a radio speech, then got up before 4,000 citizens to talk on her assigned subject of "Teachers and Their Proper Preparation." But she had warned conference sponsors beforehand that she would probably stray off her topic, since she seldom writes speech or notes. "I just speak," said...
...varied evening's program including annual elections, a banquet, and speeches by members of the advisory board will feature the year's final meeting of the Harvard Debating Council tonight...
...final business meeting will be held at 5.15 o'clock in Standish Hall Common room. At this time annual elections for officers will be held and constitutional amendments will be considered. This is to be followed by a banquet at Kirkland House. Speeches, which will be given in the Kirkland Junior Common Room, are to be by Edward Bowe '28, coach of the Harvard debating teams; and Moses Ware '02 and Albert A. Gleason '86, members of the Debating Council Advisory Board...