Word: junketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back in Moscow last week, U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies explained that his tour of 14 European capitals was no personal junket but ordered by the State Department, since President Roosevelt wants to know how other countries feel about the U. S. S. R., now the biggest buyer of U. S. war goods (see above...
...blood original to be sent to him in Rome. On II Duce's arrival, screaming men and women raced forward waving flags and handkerchiefs with cries to their Dictator of "A noil A noil" ("To us! To us!") Appearing on his famed balcony Orator Mussolini ended his German junket with one of his shortest speeches...
...Manila last week, U. S. High Commissioner Paul Yories McNutt, Indiana's onetime (1933-37) Governor, was busy being polite to polite Philippine President Manuel Quezon. During his five months' junket to the U. S. and Europe Commissioner McNutt had attempted to demote President Quezon down the Manila coast list (TIME, May 31). Meanwhile in the U. S., Commissioner McNutt's good friend and political ally, Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton, was busy announcing that High Commissioner McNutt would make in 1940 an ideal candidate for President...
This did not surprise Wenatchee. Editor Woods, on vacation, was gratifying a boyhood ambition and gathering material for his column. "In Our Own World," all in one putty-nose junket. He did two performances a day with a professional clown named "Happy" Kellams in the Cole...
After almost a week's clowning, Editor Woods set out on another junket close to his heart, a trip to Fort Peck Dam in Montana and the Tennessee Valley. Water power projects have been almost a religion to Editor Woods ever since July 19, 1918, when he wrote for his paper a remarkable piece of descriptive prophecy: "The most ambitious idea in the way of reclamation and the development of water power ever formulated is now in process of development. The idea contemplates turning the Columbia River back into its old bed in Grand Coulee, by the construction...