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...tell me, in a few words, the object and accomplishments of the recent convivial, skirt-dancing junket of the Governors of the drought-stricken States called by President Roosevelt, and in which he took the leading role...
...ginger ale, $115; State Liquor Commission, $310.80. Governor Brann took to the radio to explain that his guests, including 150 newsmen, had been invited strictly to publicize Maine's resort attractions, that his Development Commission figured the State had got $600,000 worth of publicity out of the junket. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate F. Harold Dubord made much of the fact that Ulysses S. Grant's granddaughter Princess Cantacuzene, an imported Republican stumpster, "didn't think enough of our boys to marry one of them but now she comes to tell us the Constitution is in danger...
...abolition of the penal colony has steadily grown in France. Succeeding Ministers of Justice have always spiked the move, but Minister Marc Rucart is one French Minister of Justice who has actually seen the colony. Years ago he went out as a member of a Salvation Army junket, returned convinced that the prison colony was not only a stain on French prestige and a heavy check on the development of Guiana, but a needless expense. To support some 6,000 prisoners in torment the French Government must pay about 15,870,000 francs ($1,050,000) a year...
Spring Dance is concerned with the stratagems of a group of New England college girls trying to make a footloose Yale boy stay home and marry a friend of theirs instead of taking an extended junket to Russia after college. As early as 1927 Eleanor Golden and Eloise Barrangon presented the first version of this romance to a sympathetic audience of classmates at Northampton. Producer Jed Harris got the play three years later, handed it over to his first-string playwright for doctoring five years after that. According to Miss Barrangon, Mr. Barry, the creator of such sophisticated dramas...
...Given a junket to Manhattan by his grateful underlings, Midget Charles Robert Lockhart, 3 ft. 9 in., State Treasurer of Texas, made a round of night clubs and burlesque shows, happily declared: "I'm going to have a good time while I'm here. After all, it doesn't cost me a damned thing...