Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public opinion and that of the Bank of England to American industrialists and bankers, his opposition will undoubtedly be of prime importance in undermining the President's general support. This, in the opinion of Castor and myself, is indeed a great misfortune. The story is told that at a banquet in London, where Dr. Sprague waxed conservatively eloquent over the manifold virtues of the depression in eradicating the weak and inefficient, etc., Mr. J. M. Keynes approached him afterward and said, "There is only one word to describe you. You are a sadist." Dr. Sprague is a primitivist whose primitivism...
...Commissar's proletarianism, emerged through a cordon of vigilant police with a warm greeting. Also present was Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador, who two days later made up for the parties Comrade Litvinoff had missed when he deferred his trip to Angora (TIME, Nov. 6) by a sumptuous banquet in his honor. Footmen in red livery and gold buttons served caviar and champagne, there were crimson roses on the dinner table to honor the Soviet visitors, the turkey was called "Dindoneau a la Moskva" and Mmes Borah and Pittman, whose Senator husbands were respectively out of town and ill, attended...
TIME neglected Dallas' part in the entertainment of the distinguished guests. It was in Dallas that they enjoyed a splendid banquet in the Busch-owned Adolphus Hotel, the only State-wide function arranged for them; and in Dallas, at the State Fair of Texas, that they were greeted by a cheering crowd of some 35,000 Texans, the biggest turnout for them during their visit here. In Dallas, also, they enjoyed a charming and cosmopolitan society at the beautiful home of the Rue O'Neills that they were not privileged to enjoy elsewhere in the State. In Dallas...
...Carter, who apparently hates Dallas like he hates the Fergusons, had said that he would not come to the banquet here So no place was provided for him at the speakers' table. Will Rogers persuaded him to enter the banquet hall, and when he did he took the only available place, an empty chair at the press table...
Night before last, the three moguls of the British National party were finally able to locate a town in which a candidate of theirs had been returned to municipal office, an event which seemed to have called for a congratulatory banquet. Stanley Baldwin, Ramsey MacDonald, and Sir John Simon were the principal speakers of the evening; and though Sir John carefully administered a slap on MacDonald's back, it was all too plain that the other assembled Tories had still some doubts of their new comrade. This is somewhat surprising, for though Ramsey, dear lad that...