Word: junket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the "administrative responsibilities" of the past 16 years, Scripps-Howard's Howard has nevertheless managed to keep a dramatic hand in "national and international relationships." In the past three years he has circled the globe twice. The last junket, from which he returned last April, kept him away from home eight months. That he was earning his salary every minute he was absent, no one can deny. As he stepped on the boat at San Francisco last September a neatly planned interchange of letters with the White House evoked from Frank-lin Roosevelt the political catch-phrase...
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin and his leading lady, Paulette Goddard, arrived in San Francisco from their three-month junket to the Far East, posed blithely with their shipboard chum, scrawny French Poet Jean Cocteau, who is trying to win a bet with a Paris newspaper by equaling the record of Jules Verne's Phineas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. If he wins. Poet Cocteau writes 20 articles for the paper for "beaucoup de francs." If he loses, he writes them free...
Hearst v. Intellectuals. In 1934 Publisher Hearst was granted an audience with Nazi Germany's Reichsführer Adolf Hitler, chatted with many another Nazi bigwig. Biographers Lundberg, Carlson & Bates believe the German junket explains Mr. Hearst's subsequent journalistic forays against pinko professors at Syracuse, Chicago, Columbia and New York Universities. "One of the first lessons he had learned from his German mentor was the importance of terrorizing the faculties of colleges and universities."-Carlson & Bates. "Since his German trip, Hearst has been very preoccupied with students."- Lundberg...
...Kansas City, preparing for a good will junket to Japan, Commander-in-Chief James E. Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was called to the trans-pacific telephone for a $132 conversation with a Tokyo newshawk named Osoba. Commander Van Zandt said he had a message for Japanese veterans...
Coach Fred Mitchell swung the axe again yesterday, but 17 Varsity baseball players surviving the latest cut are sure of a train ride when the team makes its annual junket through the South next week...