Word: junket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissioner of Sanitation, ordered him to "Europe for "rest." As a by-product of the trip, the Mayor and his Commissioner would inspect foreign garbage plants, get pointers to improve the New York system. Together they sailed on the Bremen Aug. 3. Soon began a typical Walker "rest" junket-a series of wisecracks, banquets, beer parties, clothes, flowery speeches, songs, night clubs and general gaiety which completely eclipsed the efforts of the other 21 mayors to have...
Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, returned to Paris from a brief Russian junket. Said he: "The people in the streets all walk quickly with grave, preoccupied faces; they do not smile. If they bump into each other they do not apologize. ... In Moscow the Opera is magnificent. . . . Every department is perfect. ... It alone seems to have escaped from politics, for the repertoire is the same as before the War. Children's theatres, which receive special government attention, are nothing but propaganda centres. In one I saw what were represented as aristocratic Red Cross nurses refusing to give common...
...gentle air of insanity continued last week to pervade reports of the U. S. mayors' junket to France as guests of that country. On a four-day frolic about Normandy they received careful instructions in French manners and etiquette preparatory to their Paris reception. Always in the press spotlight was big, breezy, beetle-browed George Baker, Mayor of Portland, Ore. and chairman of the delegation of 25 executives. At a banquet at Dinard, Mayor Baker grandly announced that he would adopt a five-year-old French orphan who played the bass drum in a church band which entertained...
Alicia Patterson, enterprising daughter of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune, returned from a six-month flying tour and big-game hunting junket in the Far East. She was proud to have killed a sladang, fierce Indo-Chinese water buffalo...
Mayor Porter was privately rebuked by his colleagues for his crass behavior, was told that repetitions of such a scene would spoil the "goodwill'' of the whole junket. When the party reached Rouen where another banquet was served them, Mayor Porter had been coached in the art of responding to French toasts. Instead of stalking out, he lifted his champagne glass to his lips, did not sip, did not swallow...