Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese graduate of Yale who was cursed like a coolie by a Shanghai bank clerk; of signs in a park on Chinese soil: "No Chinamen or dogs allowed." He flayed the whites, British and U. S. alike, who commit and permit such arrogance. He roused Governor Farrington's dinner party to his own white heat of indignation and then, suddenly, blazed out: "There's beginning to be too much of that kind of thing right here...
Good Press? Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador-designate to Mexico, spent busy hours severing connections, settling his affairs, emptying desks and files in J. P. Morgan & Co.'s Manhattan office, whence he had resigned. Then he went to dinner at the Lotus Club as chief guest of Herbert Bayard Swope, energetic executive editor of the Independent Democratic New York World. Other guests, whose presence seemed to promise Mr. Morrow "a good press" in the U. S. after he reaches Mexico City, included Publishers Adolph Ochs of the New York Times, Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World...
...sketch papers. Even now she prefers to write with a drawing board on her knees. Jalna, chosen as the best of 1,100 novels, is by no means her first published work,* though it is the first to bring her wide recognition. Now, in her native city, tea, dinner, luncheon tables buzz with compliments from dullards, staggered at a miracle which they had mistaken for mediocrity...
...Giver. In 1899, a potent young Harvard tennis player named Dwight Filley Davis donated a cup to be played for by tennis teams from all nations. Last week, at a dinner on the S. S. France, moored in the Hudson River, Mr. Davis, now U. S. Secretary of War, bade "a sad and long farewell" to his tennis cup, congratulated three Frenchmen on winning it from U. S. players who had kept it the past seven years...
Talking at Duluth, Minn., last week, at a dinner to his veteran employes, Chairman Robert Wright Stewart of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana said: "The Standard Oil Co. of Indiana is the largest manufacturer of gasoline in the world, yet alone we could not supply the demand of the 11 states in the Middle West in which we market our products. If we had a monopoly we would not know what to do with it. I suspect our enhanced problems of production and distri- bution would drive some of us to an early grave...