Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, and also Attorney General Sargent, Postmaster General New, Speaker Longworth, Everett Sanders, John Hays Hammond, and Edward T. Clark, Rudolph Forster, Judson C. Welliver (White House men) were guests of 115 newspaper correspondents who "cover" the White House. The correspondents gave a good dinner at the new Hotel Mayflower and Mr. Sargent made a good speech...
Last week, William Jennings left the Coral Gables long enough to make a journey to Washington on behalf of the Presbyterian Church and in company with his brother. The two visited the President and also gave a dinner. William devoted his efforts to religion, Charles to politics. Charles said to reporters: "I see no plan which will give the Democratic Party the support of a majority of votes in the East without setting it up against the desires of the voters of the West and South...
...beginning of the month, Lord Curzon went to Cambridge and, while dressing for a public dinner, collapsed. All his immediate engagements were canceled and he was removed to London, where he underwent a serious operation. His condition remained serious and with little improvement for about a week, when he took a turn for the worse, dying at 5:35 a.m. on the 15th day of his fatal malady...
...great social functions in Washington last week was the dinner given by the two Bryans to Vice-President Dawes. It must have been a jolly party, with Charles W. predicting a Democratic victory in 1928, with W. J. drinking a fundamentalist toast in grape juice, and with Dawes having to curb his genius in face of the greatest justification in his career for inventing a new "cuss" word...
Sargent was clearly approved for lack of enemies in Washington. Until after breakfast last Tuesday morning, just two Senators had eve herd his name; yet before dinner, a majority of that body, had officially pronounced him qualified to occupy this powerful position in the Cabinet. A study of his record would have revealed three significant attainments. He has some local reputation as a corporation and criminal lawyer; he is one of the reactionary "bosses" of his state; and his acquaintance with "Colonel" John Coolidge dates from boyhood. Interesting attainments these are, but hardly adequate preparation for the legal representative...