Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, he assembled his team of 24 Governors and his right bower, Vice Presidential Nominee John W. Bricker, and put them right to work. If any of the Governors had envisioned his trip to St. Louis as a midsummer junket, full of fun & games, he was sorely disappointed. Candidate Dewey had his class report at 10 a.m. the first day, and the atmosphere was clearly one of Positively No Excuses for Tardiness...
Last week the cautious British judged that war-scarred Cyrenaica had sufficiently settled down for His Eminence's return. For the British it would be only a slightly nerve-wearing three-week junket, during which El Senussi would inspect British reconstruction in his former homeland. But for the eminent exile it was a triumph, or a preview of triumph, done in a style almost worth "waiting 20 years...
Each member of the Senatorial junket seemed to have one major concern. Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge was most insistent on the subject of Siberian air bases, was acridly criticized by his fellow travelers. Said they: Lodge's statement that possession of Siberian air bases would save a million American lives was both inaccurate and unfortunate; Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall had requested that the question not be raised...
Four U.S. Senators came back to Washington last week after a 41,000-mile junket across five continents and around the fringes of World War II. The four gave new emphasis to the old saying that there is nothing like travel to broaden the mind...
Over the White House the air was black with chickens coming home to roost. When Franklin Roosevelt returned from his 16-day, 7,600-mile junket to Mexico, he came back to the biggest all-around mess of his ten years in office. The mess was, in the last analysis, of his own making...