Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many rumors spread during the week to the effect that there had been unnecessary brutality and killings. In all 82 executions were reported. For example it was alleged that General Francisco Serrano had been "murdered" while at the dinner table with 13 of his aides. None could doubt that there had been much cruel and useless bloodshed; but the revolt was seemingly over, despite rumors to the contrary and assertions of bandit terrorism, which probably had nothing to do with the revolt. And that, in the opinion of most observers, was that. Protests from foreign powers seemed unlikely, the rumpus...
...banquet hall in the Alcazar Hotel was transformed into a temporary airplane hangar. Five hundred guests sat down to dinner; among them Herbert C. Hoover, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, Anthony H. G. Fokker, Owen D. Young, Franklin D. Roosevelt. All talked aviation, particularly commercial aviation; all honored Van Lear Black, potent banker as well as newspaper solon, for his ten-month survey of commercial flying abroad...
Orders for the blue-bordered dinner plates bearing Harvard views which are being made by the Wedgewood Pottery have been placed far in excess of the number originally expected, and no more can be received after November 30, it has been announced by the Purchasing Agent of the University...
...evening with the "Vanities". To be sure there is nothing of particular moment in the manner or method of the present productions. They are not even, unconventional-a fact for which to offer fervent thanks. Slops and buskin are still to be preferred to plus fours and dinner jacket of last year's H. D. C.-unhappy memory...
Professor M. O. Hudson, Professor of International Law at the Law School, who has recently returned to Cambridge after an absence of 16 months, will be the speaker at a dinner on October 28 at the Hotel Bellevue arranged by the Massachusetts branch of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. Professor Hudson spent his sabbatical year in travel which he began and ended at Geneva...