Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York had opened the Royal Infirmary at Aberdeen. While Their Royal Highnesses were doing so. His Majesty, wearing a kilt and with a Scottish tarn o' shanter set jauntily over one ear, arrived at the Aberdeen railway station and greeted Mrs. Simpson as she alighted to be his guest...
...oration of Friday as the climax of the whole 300th., he went on to say that the President's work on the occasion was endless, patiently performed, Incidentally, during the nearly three weeks period of the Conference and the Celebration, Mr. Conant averaged almost two speeches a day, was guest of honor at 15 banquets in 13 days...
...between Argentina and Greentree, winner of the U. S. Open Championship, in which the best poloists in the U. S. were distributed among half a dozen teams. Main chance to restore U. S. faith in its poloists seemed last week to depend on whether substitutions-specifically, Winston Guest for John Hay Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2- could be made before the next game in the two-out-of-three series. What Argentina's reaction to such a move would be was promptly indicated by Lieut.-Colonel Enrique Padilla of the Argentine Polo...
...black ties before a reviewing stand while five bands and two bugle corps raised Tarentum's roofs. By 2 p. m. the Har-Brack athletic field was filled with citizens who overflowed the bleachers, stood on the baseball diamond. On a platform draped with flags sat the guest of honor, surrounded by friends and microphones. Over a national hookup flowed the public voices of Lowell Thomas, Ford Bond, John B. Kennedy-a battery of radio talent extolling Mr. Sheldon's 35 years as boss of Allegheny. Civic representatives spoke in praise of Mr. Sheldon's benefactions. Telegrams...
With such a potential guest list, preparations were on a grand scale. Congress appropriated $75,000, the Edison Electric Institute (utility trade association) put up $75,000 more, the National Electrical Manufacturers $25,000. Many a utility man contributed with his fingers crossed, because the New Deal was an enthusiastic booster for the conference. Secretary of the Interior Ickes headed the American National Committee while the Executive Committee was chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke. New Deal officials soothed timid power men with promises that the meetings would be kept free of political propaganda. Nevertheless, most...