Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straining to perfect relief plans for the coming winter, nothing has been definitely revealed of how many billions he will spend or in what manner. Plans for NRA's reorganization are being pushed forward-in official obscurity. Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell had been discreetly sent on a junket to Rome (see p. 16); he is not due back in the U. S. until a week after Election Day. Voters everywhere were hearing a great deal about the Administration's past record but as little as possible about its future plans...
Week before the Louisiana State-Vanderbilt football game at Nashville, Senator Huey P. Long generously announced that he would finance the trip for 1,500 cadets, lend $7 to any other Louisiana State student who lacked funds. Purpose of the junket, said the "Kingfish," was to give the university a good name. At a student meeting, he gave out rules: "No liquor . . . no pulling the bell cord. . . . Don't take me lightly...
...result of his Eastern junket, word was spread through the Democracy that genial Mr. Sinclair could be "handled." Told off to do the handling in California were Messrs. McAdoo and Creel. At the Democratic State Convention the party platform failed to mention the name EPIC, made no commitments as to the Sinclair proposals for land colonies, scrip, bond issues, high income taxes or pensions. EPIC was emasculated save for pledges to put the unemployed to work at productive labor, enabling them to produce what they could consume; to put the State's credit and resources behind cooperative self-help...
...liner Morro Castle, save Madam Minister Owen and her benefactor the embarrassment of explaining to Delaware's Republican Senator Hastings why "the gem of the Coast Guard fleet was taken from its regular station near the scene of the disaster and sent on a needless junket...
...morning last week Professor James Harvey Rogers of Yale reached Singapore in the course of a world junket. Four months ago President Roosevelt sent this snaggle-toothed Brain Truster out to gather all possible facts about silver in the Orient. Professor Rogers had talked long and solemnly with Chinese bankers in Shanghai, Canton, Hongkong, had toured the Yangtze Valley, had written meaty reports back to the U. S. Treasury...