Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Puckish little Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner is famed for his keen Socialist intellect. So is his wife who winces at being called Lady Passfield, insists she is Beatrice Webb. Lately these two leading Socialists, Laborites and economists set out on a junket to Moscow. If they thought they would receive a luxurious welcome such as was lavished last year on George Bernard Shaw (TIME, Aug. 10), they were right. The Soviet Government threw open its expensive "Guest House" for the Lord & Lady. With the discrimination of an epicure Lord Passfield ate and ate of caviar...
...letter of credit, His Honor testified that he "never heard Smith's name connected with it." He paid his part of the European trip's expenses with $3,000 in cash. The junket's finances, he understood, were handled by Rodman Wanamaker (dead) and State Senator Bernard L. Downing (dead). The Mayor was even unaware, he said, that J. Allan Smith had paid for the $3,000 overdraft...
...potatoes indeed for a man of his parts-as in if and how he would elude punishment. After Inquisitor Seabury had further showed last week that the promoters of a bus company had bought Mayor Walker a $10,000 letter of credit, later extended by $3,000, for his junket to Europe in 1927, the chase approached its most exciting stage-Mayor Walker on the stand in his own defense...
...Walker had succeeded in getting a franchise for Equitable Coach Co., but a day before his signature made the franchise effective, the syndicate's "entertainer," one J. Allan Smith, bought the Mayor's $10,000 letter of credit. Next day the Mayor sailed for Europe on a junket which proved so costly that Mr. Smith had to settle an overdraft...
...Bevan's wealth, which permits him a capacious apartment on Chicago's Gold Coast, a house in Lake Forest and an annual junket to California, derives only in small part from his practice. In 1896 he married Anna L. Barber, sole heir to the late Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber (1841-1920). Dr. Bevan is a large stockholder, a potent director of the $42,000,000 Diamond Match...