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...last week the Chase junket was on its homeward lap. After surveying the financial district of Phoenix, Ariz. (pop. 48,000), Chairman Aldrich, Nephew Nelson Rockefeller and the other Chaselings began at San Antonio a seven-day inspection of Texas "conditions." There the party was joined by young Winthrop Rockefeller, who has been "roughnecking" in the oil fields for the Rockefeller Humble Oil & Refining Co. He boarded the car for a few days to visit with his brother Nelson, who is generally regarded as the heir-apparent to all his smart old grandfather's smartness. At Houston Mr. Aldrich confided...
...Last week Ambassador Bullitt sailed from Japan for the U. S. after a seven-week diplomatic junket from Moscow across Siberia and through China and Japan...
...Orleans, Nov. 7--Senator Huey P. Long announced plans for a new football junket today and warned the railroads that unless they agreed to his price for the trip "We'll ride free and pay them with their own money...
...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...