Word: junketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steamers he was afraid of fire. He was relieved when he got into stage-coaches, but on one a driver was drunk, on another a wagon tongue broke, almost tipped them off a mountain. Although he does not say that he regained his health on his strenuous junket, his diary gives the impression that Southern sunshine must have been beneficial, or he could never have stood the trip home...
Into Buenos Aires last week dropped a "flying caravan" of four U. S. women representing the People's Mandate to End War. Led by Pacifist Elise Burton Musser, former Utah State Senator, the members of the flying junket-Mrs. Enoch Wesley Frost of Arkansas, Mrs. Ana del Pulgar de Burke of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Rebecca Hourwich Reyher of New York-left Hyde Park, N. Y. on October 30, with President Roosevelt's benediction, to exhort the Latin American nations into ratifying the Inter-American conference peace treaties (TIME...
...Presidents of the 20 more or less democratic republics of Latin America Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight dispatched copies, inscribed and handsomely printed at his own expense, of the enthusiastically democratic speeches he delivered during his junket to the Pan-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires last year. Last week came a singularly disappointing response from Good Neighbor Roosevelt's "good friend" President Getulio Dornelles Vargas of Brazil...
...them to the game, there was plenty of free music and beer to banish gloom. As the fleet 14-car special slipped back into Cheyenne that night everybody was content and all were indebted to Wyoming Eagle Publisher Tracy Stephenson McCraken who footed the $2,200 bill for the junket...
...liked to play poker for 48 hours at a stretch, died in 1891. Prince Koke's mother is Princess Kawananakoa, Hawaiian Republican National Committeewoman from 1924 to 1936 who recently entertained Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house was: "I'm willing to take the rap." Still too drunk to give a coherent account of what had happened, he was held for investigation...