Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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N.A.M.'s second biggest news was much better publicized, much less puzzling, much less painful to those same ears. It came from the keynoter at N.A.M.'s usual $10 blue-plate windup banquet (grapefruit, mock turtle soup, roast turkey and cranberries, sherbet and petits fours-no butter), the man who makes policy for the world's biggest manufacturer: General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
...like Governor John C. Vivian, were cautiously "open-minded"; others, like shock-haired ex-Governor Ralph Carr, who had seconded Willkie's nomination in 1940, were hostile. Across the border in Wyoming, the reception was different: roly-poly Jim Griffith, State G.O.P. chairman, led the cheers at a banquet in the old Plains Hotel, where the crowd spilled out from the banquet hall into the hotel lobby and an adjoining drugstore...
...average debt was $750 per acre. But by 1941 prices went up; the demand for Wenatchee's luxury apples was brisk. That fall, when Shipper Reuben Benz wangled a freight reduction, the growers were riding so high that they gave him 3,100 silver dollars, trundled into a banquet room in a wheelbarrow...
Last week, at a New York Board of Trade banquet, "Uncle Jesse" told 1,200 businessmen some of his own ideas on what should become of his war plants. Reassuringly-and for the umpteenth time-he insisted that "Government should get out of active industry as soon as it can." Reassuringly, he said he thought a good deal of Government equipment could go to build up the economies of foreign nations. Then he enunciated a principle dear to the heart of the average Congressman: that "to avoid monopolies and too much concentration, local people should have the first call...
...Played host, as Chief Good Neighbor, at a State banquet for overnight guest General Higinio Morinigo, President of Paraguay...