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Last week, accompanied by publicity-wise Daddy Wood, two nurses and 20 faculty members, one-third of Stephens packed its bags and went off on the school's annual junket to see some of the country and a few new boys (cost per student...
French Tour (Tues. 6:05 p. m. NBC-Blue), a microphone junket that in the next three months will do Paris from the hotcha Bal Tabarin to the Sorbonne and rest up in the provinces. First brush: with a Paris taxidriver...
Congress appropriates $10,000 annually toward the support of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a "parliament of man" founded 51 years ago to keep the world's legislative bodies informed about each other. Another $10,000 from Congress provides one of the juiciest bits of junket on the Washington political platter: an annual trip for a delegation to the union's meeting (last year at The Hague, this year at Oslo). A supposedly non-partisan caucus of the whole Congress picks the head of the delegation, who then, by hallowed custom, dishes out the junket to his party mates...
...social occasion. Under the leadership of New York's heavy-humored Representative "Ham" Fish and Missouri's bucolic Representative Dewey Short, they voted ten-to-one that Ham Fish, not Alben Barkley, should head the delegation and pick "a dozen other lucky Congressmen to share the junket...
...Richard N. Elliott, times and conditions also changed when Congress stiffened its back over the Reorganization Bill. Before that he had confined his blue pencil to Government expenses for publicity, such frills as an expense account turned in by the President's ten-man junket to study European marketing co operatives. More recently Mr. Elliott refused to O. K. expenditures for AAA's scheme to pay growers $10 a bale for cotton surrendered for loans, termed a Navy contract with Cleveland's Wellman Engineering Co. "illegal," watched complacently from the sidelines as three of his accountants last...