Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual dinner in honor of the Supreme Court took place last week at the White House. Guests other than the Justices and their wives were Attorney General Stone and?designate Warren, Solicitor General Beck and their wives, Representative Graham (Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee), ex-Governor and Mrs. Sproul of Pennsylvania; Princess Cantacuzene, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook of Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow of Manhattan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns...
William M. Butler, ex-Republican Campaign manager, new Senator from Massachusetts, made his first important public speech since taking office at a dinner in Boston, declaring that the election of 1924 was the greatest "thinking election" since 1896. Through cold and winter weather, Chauncey M. Depew, nearly 91, went to the Pilgrim's banquet in Manhattan, spoke, saying: "What's the matter with Congress? Well, you have to be in Congress to understandd," was reflected President of the society with Elihu Root, John W. Davis, in his corps of officers...
...Eating dinners is a peculiar custom of the English which has great significance. At Oxford a man's first duty is to "keep term," without which, work as he may, he cannot possibly obtain a degree. "Keeping term," brought down to its final analysis, consists in eating a given number of dinners at his college. In London, a law student at the Inns of Court must, if he ever hopes to become a barrister, eat at least three dinners in the hall of his particular Inn. Thus, by the lime a politician has been through Oxford and becomes a barrister...
...Ambassadors are early introduced to this quaint English custom. It is now a part of the London Ambassador's duty to eat dinner with the Pilgrims on his arrival and again on his departure...
...Court of St. James's, sat down with the Prince of Wales, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill, the veteran ex-Premier and statesman Lord Balfour and a goodly sprinkling of Cabinet Ministers and foreign Ambassadors. The Pilgrims were giving Mr. Kellogg the usual send-off dinner...