Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Approved a Cabinet spanking quietly administered to florid, genial James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions, who had planned for himself & family a glorious round-the-world junket, visiting all the dominions preliminary to next year's Imperial Conference at Ottawa...
Joyous Jim, who clings to the coat tails of his great & good friend the Prime Minister (having bolted with him out of the Labor Party), was bluntly told last week (reputedly by Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain) that he could not junket about the world at British taxpayers' expense...
From both coasts came hostile editorial comment on the Mayoral junket. "In the country as a whole," observed the New York Herald Tribune, "there will be many to hope that His Honor will succeed in his mission; but it is a sad commentary on American justice that the freedom of anyone should hinge on a 'stunt...
...secures a prostitute's license. When she arrives at the jail where her father is confined, she finds him dead. She is then subjected to the insults of the secret police and the leering advances of a Baron Andrey (Lionel Barrymore). Further and even more desperate consequences of her junket are imminent until she makes good friends with a British journalist (Laurence Olivier) and, by virtue of what she can tell him about the technique of the secret police, becomes his secretary. When the journalist's revelations imperil his life, there occurs the scene in which Elissa Landi, imprisoned...
...stream 45 min. later with a 7¼ Ib. trout. Publisher Bonfils had the story of the affair printed in his newspaper. Allan Henry, younger son of President Herbert Clark Hoover, who completed in June his course at Harvard's business school, sailed for a junket in Hawaii. The following lay ill: Countess Willingdon, Vicereine of India, of dengue ("breakbone") fever, at Simla; Clifford C. ("Cactus") Cravath, city judge of Leguna Beach, Calif, who led the Na tional League in homeruns in 1913-15 and 1917-19, after a motor accident; the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George...