Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, New Hampshire's blue-eyed, chunky Senator Styles Bridges resumed a national tour. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft plodded through the Midwest. Michigan's Vandenberg sawed wood, kept mum in Grand Rapids. Texas newshawks held an "Evil Old Men's" dinner in honor of John Garner. In Baltimore, Montana's Senator Wheeler said pretty things of Franklin Roosevelt. In New York City, Thomas E. Dewey polished up a GOPresidential bandwagon, prepared to start it rolling in Minneapolis...
...night last week 14 men met in Washington's exclusive Cosmos Club for dinner. Ostensible purpose: to honor bouncing young Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana University. Real purpose: a get-acquainted meeting for Paul Vories McNutt and the Janizariat of the New Deal...
Assembled were such Inner Circlers as Tommy Corcoran, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, SEComrnissioner Edward ("Big Ed") Eicher, Federal Works Administrator John Carmody, Ernest Lindley, journalist, who helps write the McNutt speeches. Two men arranged the dinner: Economist David Cushman Coyle, Federal Security Counsel Fowler Harper, onetime dean of McNutt's Alma Mater, Indiana Law School...
...Inner Circlers McNutt has been known as: 1) the man with that funny name, 2) a handsome Hoosier Hitler who once called out troops to quash a strike. By last week these New Deal intellectuals could no longer ignore Politician McNutt. What went on at the dinner-which Tommy Corcoran left early-only the guests knew-and they kept...
...Harvard Club of Boston will entertain the Yale Club, along with the Harvard and Yale bands and a group of eminent sports writers at a pre-game football dinner tomorrow night...