Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself & friends ridiculed and make an off-the-record speech, President Hoover attended the Gridiron Club dinner...
Among the 400-odd gridiron guests: Tammany Chief John Francis Curry, Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin, Senatorial Host Walter J. Fahy, National City Bank President Gordon John Rentschler, the Governors of Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Maryland; Senator Grundy (very popular), but not Senator Brookhart...
...Willard Hotel in Washington startles the President of the U. S.. his Cabinet, Class A senators and congressmen, prime foreign envoys, many a tycoon of business and politics. Suddenly a jester rushes in upon them with the first jape to start one of the Washington newsmen's famed gridiron club dinners...
...Gridiron President Roberts: What is that awful noise...
...laymen a gridiron evening constitutes a stiff examination in political current events. For professional politicians it is a trying game like "Truth." Last week President Hoover good naturedly watched his "Commission-a-Month Club" recess before it became a "Commission-a-Minute Club." The Hoover "Naval Yardstick" was brought forth in an elaborate box which proved to be empty, though a gridironer insisted it contained "the same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could...