Word: junketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governor and Territorial Assemblyman, in 1909 Manuel Quezon made his first trip to Washington as Resident Commissioner. He had no vote in Congress, but he had a voice. That voice soon reached William Atkinson Jones of Warsaw, Va. Representative Jones had been to Manila with the first great Congressional junket in 1905, led by Secretary of War Taft. About the only tangible result of that trip was the betrothal of Representative Nicholas Longworth and Alice Roosevelt. But eight years later, the Democrats took over in Washington and Mr. Jones became Chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee. With Manuel Quezon...
Berlin's Mayors, like New York's, have frequently been in hot water. That passionate pinochle player, plump little Mayor Gustav Boess. for example, was ignominiously hauled back from a junket to the U. S. six years ago when it was discovered that his wife had accepted an expensive fur coat from some outfitters who got city contracts for hospital uniforms (TIME...
...Route. When the President goes junketing to Hyde Park or Warm Springs, three cars usually take care of his whole party. But last week's journey was more than a junket. It took three of the train's ten cars to hold all the photographers, radiomen, reporters and Secret Service men. Together with Mrs. Roosevelt, a White House staff detachment twelve strong and an unusually heavy Secret Service detail, the Press was to accompany the President as far as San Diego. To take with him aboard the Houston on his cruise back East by way of the Panama...
Back in Manhattan from a European junket, James Watson Gerard, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, windy chairman of the Committee on America Self-Contained, announced that the nation's "most influential person" is now Countess Haugwitz (Barbara Hutton). Grumped he: "There's an expressionless young woman who inherited $50,000,000 and now rushes about gathering titles, good or bad, with the speed of an antelope. She does her country no good and spends her money abroad. The result is a strong tax-the-rich sentiment that we're all going to suffer from if we've piled up a little...
...happened, the annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...