Word: junketeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bureaucrat Young. Clarence M. Young, Director of the Department of Commerce's air section, who is flying his own plane on a European air inspection junket, reached Berlin last week. There he inspected the great Tempelhof airport, visited the Rohrbach works, heard that the Germans this summer plan to operate air service from Germany to both North and South America...
Robert Woods Bliss, socially elect "career man" and U. S. Ambassador to Argentina, was able to set out last week on a vacation which he had been forced to abandon temporarily when President-Elect Herbert Hoover decided to junket around South America (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Originally Mr. Bliss planned to join Mrs. Bliss in Europe; but she has now crossed the Atlantic and the U. S. to California. Therefore, as Ambassador Bliss left Buenos Aires, last week, he headed not for Paris but for San Francisco...
...Pont, and many another. Germans the hosts. Secret talk about nitrates. The yacht steams down the blue Adriatic from Venice to Corfu and returns. Meanwhile banqueting to tempt Lucullus. Scuppers running with champagne. But always more and more earnest talk of nitrates. The whole junket an achievement in making pleasure implicit with business...
...fleet of North American Rotarians it was announced that radio communication?or "contact," as Rotarians say?would be continuous between ships all the way across the ocean so that the junket-ers could exchange messages and keep tabs on what all were doing. All six ships had their entertainment committees, to think up daily "programs" such as Rotarians enjoy at home only once per week. Each ship was laden with "inexpensive (and expensive) articles to be distributed as prizes." (Rotarians love to play games.) "Among other things sent in," announced The Rotarian (official monthly), "was a topcoat, rather a useful...
...whose names stand for houses: Lippincott, McBride, Dorrance, Burt, Brace (but not Harcourt), job-riding merrily together to Grosset (without Dunlap). There was many another publisher or his trusted lieutenant, like shrewd young George Brett Jr., representing the comparatively vast Macmillan interests. One and all were making a junket out of a serious Washington to appear en masse at public hearings of the Patents Committee of the House of Representatives on a subject close to the hearts of all U.S. authors, song writers, scenarists, printers, librarians, dramatists, actors, librettists and bookbinders whatever, but most of all important to publishers...