Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note in TIME, Sept. 19, an account of next-President Roosevelt's junket to the West and the remark that "Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley, head of the 'brain trust' which supplies the Governor with economic data," was on the campaign train. I studied political science under Professor Moley at Columbia some eight years ago and thought him shrewd, honest, fearless. His work as head of the Cleveland crime commission (about 1923) brought him wide fame and the attention of a number of Cleveland thugs who waylaid him one night, fortunately without too serious results, because...
City preachers, when they get a holiday, are likely to go to the country and think about their lot. Last week a country preacher gave city preachers something else to think about. Preacher Thomas H. Rose set out with his wife for a junket in Boston, Atlantic City and New York, the last two of which neither he nor she had ever seen...
Preacher Rose's junket was the 1932 ''Distinguished Service Award for New England Pastors" given by the New England Fellowship, for purely spiritual services, to pastors earning less than $2,000 a year. Belfast born and London trained, wiry, ruddy, sharp-nosed Preacher Rose was called to the Congregational Church in small Vershire, Vt. four years ago. There was a Congregational Church at West Fairlee Centre and Preacher Rose soon took to preaching there also. Presently the parishioners of an abandoned Methodist Church at West Fairlee offered him its pulpit. He accepted. He even got the three...
...bring swarms of U. S. tourists to enrich his Fascist land. Time of the two big ships from Manhattan to Gibraltar will be four and a half days, to Nice, six and a half. In actual traveling time the octopi of Naples' famed Aquarium will be but one junket day farther from Manhattan than the Ritz Bar in Paris. Though head of no line, the driving force behind Italian shipping is short, bull-necked Count Costanza Ciano. Mussolini's closest associate. His son wed Mussolini's daughter Edda. Into Count Ciano's stout fists, Mussolini...
...again, it would have been all right-I mean there was-er-er-no definite agreement. "We are in it," was one of those things amongst gentlemen. . . . Another matter that caused Mayor Walker embarrassment was the $10,000 letter of credit he and his friends got for a European junket in 1927. Governor Roosevelt: You had an overdraft in Paris for $3,000 drawn by you on the Equitable Trust Co.? Mayor Walker: It was really a draft by Senator Downing [Walker friend] in my name. Governor: In effect it was a promise to pay $3,000 on your part...