Word: junketings
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...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...
Fortnight ago Commissioner Allen set out on a week's junket, financed out of his own pocket. He took a train to Milwaukee, then traveled by street car and bus to Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago. Much of the time he went unshaven. He never spent more than $1.25 for a hotel room. Everywhere he presented him self as a candidate for work, in bread lines, at government relief stations, at employment agencies. When he got back to Washington last week he had something...
...traveling locust on into Northern China. There he might get his wings soaked in torrents of crop-destroying rain, if he did not fly to Western China. There drought and the sun would drop him to earth at last, scorch him to death at 115°. But on his world junket the Argentine locust would have seen what sharp-eyed traders began to foresee last spring. There is not enough wheat growing in the fields of the world to feed all the people in the world...