Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transferred to the executive staff of the Munitions Assignments Board (Harry Hopkins), later moved to Lend-Lease. When Joseph E. Davies made his second mission to Moscow, Major Martin accompanied him. Last week, when Major Martin returned, he beamingly let it be known that at the state banquet, Premier Joseph Stalin had raised a glass, toasted the former chief of Wall Street...
Benton spoke at Cincinnati's Hotel Netherland Plaza, where the American Institute of Architects and the Producers' Council (building equipment manufacturers) last week gave a joint annual-convention banquet. Said he to the builders: 1) "Every policy of business that restricts employment or production should be re-examined"; 2) the building industry is "notorious" as the No.1 practicer of "every form of so-called monopolistic practices"; 3) it is also the kingpin of all industries in the economy of the U.S., because it normally accounts for half the nation's total new capital formation...
...years George Jessel has entertained in vaudeville, legit, radio, cinema, banquet halls, brothels. He has swung high & low, never quite ranking with the Cantors, Durantes, Wynns. One reason: he is more wisecracker than zany. Another may be: with his marital mishaps, he has had too much publicity in the wrong section of the papers. But for two things he is famed: as the Jazz Singer and as Momma Jessel's son Georgie...
...devoted to building up a desire for cooperation between the United States and Russia, leading Boston newspapers have recently shown the dangerous inclination to promote anti-Russian feeling; dangerous because it is insidiously developed in news stories and not straightforwardly in editorials. Last Sunday night a Patriot's Day banquet was held in Boston. The Governor of Massachusetts, a Right Reverend Monseigneur of the Catholic Church, a Harvard professor, and a chaplain from the Harvard Army Chaplain School gave speeches. The Chaplain's address, no more outstanding than the rest, was a stern outcry against slackening of civilian morale...
Burma's Judy. In Burma even more is being made of political appeals. Fortnight ago Burma's Puppet Premier Ba Maw visited Tokyo. He was entertained in an annex of Premier Tojo's official residence. He was taken to the Diet, given a banquet, interviewed. And then he was told by Premier Tojo that Japan had set up "the new independent State of Burma...