Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...junket brought Mr. Davies and Daughter Emlen back to Moscow, where official newsorgans were pleased to learn from their reporters on the trip that the U. S. Ambassador had asked questions and taken notes on costs, wages, profits, distribution and labor efficiency as figured by Soviet managers; also their sources of labor, ages of workers, percentage of women, clothing, housing, rents, hospitalization, insurance and their definitions of "Stakhanovism"-the most disputed word in Russia (TIME, March...
Back from his junket, Banker Mount returned to his old institution in Oakland, which was then actually two banks, Central National and Central Savings. National failed to reopen after the 1933 banking holiday, though Savings did. As president of Savings and conservator of National, Banker Mount dug in. National's depositors were paid off 100 cents on the dollar and Savings became rock-solid Central Bank of Oakland...
...Mary's Press Agent Tom Foudy boasted that 500,000 people would watch the team this year. St. Mary's rooters boasted two special trains for their annual two-week $54,000 transcontinental junket. St. Mary's players boasted scarlet shirts with white shoulders, decorated with green harps, blood-red headguards, emerald-green silk trousers, royal-blue stockings. Fordham had nothing to boast about except one point-result of Andy Palau's place kick after a touchdown on his pass to Jacunski-that outweighed two St. Mary's field goals...
...usual, professional art critics whose annual junket to Pittsburgh is a sort of esthetic American Legion Convention, turned up their noses at the choices of the prize jury. In 1934 they objected to Peter Blume's surrealist South of Scranton as the work of a decadent school of non- sense. In 1935 Spanish Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes' prizewinning picture of a young Negro couple on a sofa was held inferior to dozens of U. S. paintings of the same type. Of Leon Kroll's Road From the Cove Critic Henry McBride wrote...
...offered by an alert railroad is an "Off the Beaten Path" junket with excursionists riding in the locomotive cab or perched on miniature bleachers built into the tender...