Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors usually lunch together in the office library, but to celebrate Editor Wallace's arrival they went to a Waldorf-Astoria banquet room to hear his belligerent declaration of war: "I lay down the challenge of battle to the Republican Party utterly and completely...
Detroiters who turned out after Mass for the testimonial banquet in his honor were charmed by Father Matthews' urbane polish, his easy, fluid gestures, the Caribbean cadence of his speech. He told them: "It is sometimes alleged-not without some foundation in the past history of the culture-conflict of the Negro in the New World-that Negroes do not wish to be ministered to by priests of their own race. ... To say that in this year of grace and achievement, 1946, is ... a most vicious form of propaganda.. . . The business of salvation is not a racial enterprise...
Second and third prize went to a couple of propagandists in paint: second to Boston's perpetually angry young Jack Levine for his bitter Welcome Home (TIME, May 20), a mottled-looking general at a misty banquet; third to William Cropper's muddy, violent Don Quixote No. i, a starved white horse and black-armored rider careening past theatrical rocks...
Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder should have known better. At the Financial World's, Annual Report Awards Banquet in Manhattan last week, he blithely asked the assembled businessmen for "constructive criticisms...
...audience was outspoken Robert R. Young, there to receive an "Oscar of industry" for the 1945 report of his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. As Young rose to accept the award, he also accepted Snyder's invitation. When his speech (and the banquet) ended some four minutes later, a red-faced Mr. Snyder got up at once and angrily walked...