Word: junketeering
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...police state infested with U.S. spies. (He claimed later that Pravda reporters had misquoted him, but added a hasty explanation that Soviet reporters, like all reporters, sometimes make mistakes.) Back in Canada, Endicott was a logical choice to escort the "Red Dean" on his pro-Soviet peace junket...
...foreign correspondents last week were sporting dazzling red, white & blue hand-painted neckties. They displayed a picture of the Tribune Tower, complete to the Stars & Stripes flying from the top. The ties were gifts from Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, who wore one himself on his recent round-the-world junket (TIME, March 20); and thereby got the idea that his correspondents should also be suitably identified...
...Seagar, another letter-winner of last season, qualified for the junket, but is unable to go. He'll pick up again when the home matches begin...
...even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial junket last year (with a senatorial subcommittee of which he was not even a member) that a Washington correspondent began his story: "Senator Jenner returned to Washington today and gave the whole world 24 hours...
Though he was perhaps the most spectacular performer of the season, he was not alone. The fall of 1949 produced a full flowering of the congressional junket. With EGA, D.P. camps, trade barriers, military installations and the Folies-Bergere all to be inspected, almost any standing committee could dip into the public purse for foreign travel. A great many...