Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitation signed Walter J. Fahy. . . . I threw it in the waste basket. . . . Then I came on down to Washington and I met [Senator Moses] who said: 'You have not answered Fahy's letter. . . . He's an old friend of Norris and La Follette and he is giving a friendly dinner.' I said 'All right, if that's all there is to it I'll go' and I went...
...Then we went in to dinner and I was seated with Otto Kahn and with E. E. Loomis of the Morgan Co.? Mr. Kahn brought up the subject of . . . railroad valuation. He said to me, 'Your plan will not work'. . . . And that ended the conversation with Mr. Kahn...
...Well, the dinner was over, but during the course of that dinner Mr. Loomis took his hip flask?a beautiful silver hip flask? out of his pocket and poured out some of that alcoholic stuff. I have had enough experience in the chemical laboratory to know that it had a heavy content of alcohol. He poured that in the glass and then he poured in some water?it was too strong to take raw?and he drank that and a lot of similar operations went on around the table...
...Then the dinner was over and Senator Gooding and I broke away. We started out. The Senator from New Jersey [Edge] called me back and said: 'Do you know who you were between? You had Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on your right and Morgan & Co. on your left. Don't you think you got contaminated just a little...
...newly elected members will receive their keys and certificates from President Lowell at the annual winter dinner on Tuesday, November...