Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though elected last week, will not assume office until Lord Mayor's Day, Nov. 9, must spend at least ?3,000 to please the London populace by staging that pompous, freakish annual pageant, "The Lord Mayor's Show," plus ?3,000 for the Lord Mayor's banquet. Paid an annual salary and allowance of ?50,000, the Lord Mayor of London normally spends some ?30,000 of it on civic entertainment during his year in office...
This week President Roosevelt was to lend his prestige to the Roman Catholic Church by speaking in Manhattan at the culminating banquet of the 19th National Conference of Catholic Charities. Not immediately concerned with money-raising (handled by individual dioceses) the Conferences deal with practical problems of sociology and welfare work. Called by New York's Patrick Cardinal Hayes under the patronage of Pope Pius XI, this year's Conference coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, an unobtrusive organization of laymen who care for the poor, working mainly...
Yesterday the Medical School alumni visited Boston hospitals, attended a series of talks at the School, and dined at an anniversary banquet in Vanderbilt Hall...
...that time a detailed announcement of the activities of the society for the coming year will be made. Among other things a debate by radio will be held with the Menorah Society of Northwestern University and about December 15 the annual dance and banquet will be held at the Statler Hotel. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Samuel Untermeyer, counsel for the city of New York have both promised to speak before monthly meetings of the society...
Most newspapers did not print a story that Mrs. Roosevelt told in Washington one night last week. Addressing a banquet of Community Chest leaders at the Mayflower Hotel she declared: "I thought of a woman I had seen just after her child died. The child had died because it slept in a cold, wet bed. It had had to sleep in that bed because the family had been evicted from its home. The mother told the sheriff that her child was sick. He said to her: "I'm not here to nurse your god-damned kids.' " That morning...