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...stone. By way of explanation, it may be assumed that the majority of graduating students will, if they have not already done so, invest in some form of life insurance. A smaller majority also plan, in accordance with the precepts of duty and in preparation for a future junket, to contribute something toward the class fund...
Dropping four members of his Cabinet, the President boarded his special train, started West. G. O. P. Chairman Simeon Davison Fess was ordered back to Washington lest his presence give the President's trip the appearance of a political junket. Postmaster General Brown, however, was permitted to go along. Outside Altoona the train was run off on a siding at Mule Shoe Bend, high among the mountains. Ties were lashed to the tracks to keep it from rolling; switches were spiked; the President slept seven quiet hours...
Further Navy economy measures last week were: reduction in recruiting for the next year of 3,000 to 4,000 men; restriction of Navy airmen to a minimum of training and familiarization flights, banning of congressional junket air "shows" at local fairs and celebrations...
Jean Patou, Paris couturier, sailing home after a U. S. junket, told reporters that he had been kicked in the shin by a Manhattan debutante while dancing. Said he: "I would laugh at the cheek-against-cheek, the eyes-half-closed and the lower-part-of-the-body-trailing manner of dancing if it were not for its alarming public danger. The girl who kicked me - she retained a comic expression of rapture. The effect, I would say, was at least bad on the eyes." Of other U. S. mores said he: "Those blood-red fingernails are awful. Blood...
Decision by Mr. Ford to give Irish prosperity this potent boost was taken on the famed junket to England (TIME, April 23, 1928), during which King George and Queen Mary put etiquette in their royal pockets and went to the house of Viscountess Astor, where they were in effect presented to Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Long, informal and marked by cordiality on both sides was the ensuing chat between the King of Men and the Monarch of Motors, a chat which may just possibly have been momentous and lucky for Ireland...