Word: junketeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Junket? No!?Junket...
After nearly two weeks of accusation that he was taking the Leviathan on a $1,000,000 junket in the guise of a trial trip, Chairman Lasker replied to his accusers. The next day the Democratic National Committee replied that his reply was no reply. The substances of both charge and countercharge bear an interesting comparison, because both are true...
...real question of whether the trial trip is a junket, Mr. Lasker made three pertinent statements: that when the Leviathan was converted into a troop ship (undergoing changes "minor compared to those now made") she was sent on a five-day trial cruise in southern waters; that the cost of the trial trip will be $120,000, of which $13,000 will be caused by the presence of guests, and that the experts "insisted" that there should be between 400 and 500 guests to test the " complex organization and service machinery " of the ship...
...plan of Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board to take the Leviathan on a trial trip from Boston to Cuba and back to New York with 600 guests aboard has raised a great howl of " Junket!'' from many newspapers, chiefly Democratic, of whom The New York World is the leader...
...knowledge of the army and what it is doing. We have enough supplies and troops on board to justify the voyage and its expense, even if there were no Senators or Representatives on the ship," said Mr. Weeks. " For heaven's sake, don't call this a junket! A junket is a trip where the people's money is spent unnecessarily...