Word: banquetting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such a man is Francis Cardinal Spellman, who this month is celebrating his 75th birthday and his 25th anniversary as Archbishop of New York. Last week nearly 4,000 guests crowded into four ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria for a banquet in his honor, and piles of gifts, letters and telegrams spilled across his office desks at 452 Madison Avenue. In part, the tributes came because Spellman is a genuinely warm and kindly man, a gregarious and sociable prelate whose gentle smile and sly Irish wit can charm Presidents as well as plumbers. But there was also the respect paid...
...dessert time at the banquet marking Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's ceremonial visit to the Hanover Fair. Suddenly a Nachtisch of grim-faced police appeared. To the astonishment of the crowd, they arrested and marched away Fritz-Aurel Goergen, the president of the vast Henschel Works, whose $125 million in annual sales cover locomotives, trucks and heavy machinery. Before the week was out, two other Henschel executives had been arrested, and four had had their homes and offices searched. Germany was faced with what may be its biggest postwar business scandal, which quickly began making bold headlines and even bolder...
...full-throated baritone introduced Johnson Is Setting the Pace in a smoke-fogged Chicago banquet hall full of perspiring Democratic politicians. But Lyndon Baines Johnson, the guest of honor, was already handshaking his way toward an exit. He had more places to go, more things to do, and he certainly meant to go and do them...
Ladies' Auxiliary. By such tactics, the Ku Klux Klan is seeking a new respectability-and new members-throughout the Deep South. Its meetings are often held in the banquet halls of metropolitan hotels, just as peaceably as the Jaycees. When race trouble flares, Klan security men, wearing white helmets, sometimes circulate through crowds, calming whites. Declares North Carolina Grand Dragon James R. Jones: "The reborn Klan is absolutely nonviolent. We don't allow rabble-rousers." Says Imperial Wizard Bobby Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Ala.: "We want the kind of people in the Klan like businessmen who build...
Speaking at the annual B.C. industrial and Commercial Law Review banquet, Katzenbach said a system which left the individual to enforce his rights against the government was "tolerable" only because of the assumption "that public officials will comply in good faith with these rights as interpreted by the courts...