Word: junketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johannesburg the big crowd, waiting tensely for the end of the 6,150-mi. junket, burst into cheers as the Scott-Guthrie plane slid in for a landing, winner of the $20,000 first prize in 52 hr., 56 min. The celebration was suddenly stilled by the news that Pilot Findlay and one of his companions had been killed in a crash at Abercorn, near Lake Tanganyika. Capitalist Schlesinger announced that he would donate the rest of the prize money ($30,000) to the dependents of the two dead airmen...
...unprecedented demand for seats that made it seem probable that all games in this year's World Series would be sellouts, the one that got most attention last week came from the White House. First Presidential junket to the World Series since Herbert Hoover was roundly booed at Philadelphia in 1931 was scheduled for the third game, the first in the Yankee Stadium...
...tell me, in a few words, the object and accomplishments of the recent convivial, skirt-dancing junket of the Governors of the drought-stricken States called by President Roosevelt, and in which he took the leading role...
...ginger ale, $115; State Liquor Commission, $310.80. Governor Brann took to the radio to explain that his guests, including 150 newsmen, had been invited strictly to publicize Maine's resort attractions, that his Development Commission figured the State had got $600,000 worth of publicity out of the junket. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate F. Harold Dubord made much of the fact that Ulysses S. Grant's granddaughter Princess Cantacuzene, an imported Republican stumpster, "didn't think enough of our boys to marry one of them but now she comes to tell us the Constitution is in danger...
...abolition of the penal colony has steadily grown in France. Succeeding Ministers of Justice have always spiked the move, but Minister Marc Rucart is one French Minister of Justice who has actually seen the colony. Years ago he went out as a member of a Salvation Army junket, returned convinced that the prison colony was not only a stain on French prestige and a heavy check on the development of Guiana, but a needless expense. To support some 6,000 prisoners in torment the French Government must pay about 15,870,000 francs ($1,050,000) a year...