Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alumni, the Committee's main current goal calls for delaying final decision by Yesterday a telephone conversation with Salstonstall, who returned Sunday from a European Congressional junket produced assurance that no further formal deliberations would take place before "the first of year...
...formal report claims that equal chance still exists for the Student Activities Center and Medical Center proposals. But according to Ralph Lowell '12, acting chairman until Leverett Saltonstall '14 returns from a European Congressional junket, the committee fought sore temptation to announce a final decision now. "Only deference to the Senator," Lowell admitted Wednesday, "determined our plan to wait until the turn of the year...
...thought this all up, Adolph P. Schuman, 38, president of Lilli Ann Co., the junket seemed well worthwhile. As president of the Manufacturers' and Wholesalers' Association of San Francisco, he got other members to chip in, persuaded the city to contribute $5,000 towards a total expense of some $65,000. What the group hoped to do, Schuman said, was to combine French ideas on fabrics, ornamentation and accessories with U.S. manufacturing techniques...
...tightly knit U.S. baseball empire, such squawks and promotions by the Pacific powers are old stuff. Yet last week, to the amazement of many, the lords & masters made a pacifying pilgrimage. Commissioner Albert ("Happy") Chandler himself led the westward junket; he was accompanied by Presidents Will Harridge and Ford Frick of the American and National Leagues. At Los Angeles the battle was joined. Loudly led by dapper President Clarence ("Pants...
...there any such thing as freedom of worship in Titotalitarian Yugoslavia? Well, yes, said seven U.S. Protestant clergymen just returned from a Tito-financed junket (TIME, Aug. 25). By last week, the visiting ministers' cheery reports on Yugoslavia had won them some irate rebukes from both Protestants and Catholics...