Word: luncheon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats win both Houses of the Massachusetts legislature this fall, I would fear gerymandering on a large scale," Christian A. Herter, Jr. '41, candidate for state Attorney General, told the Law School Republican Club yesterday at a luncheon in Harkness Commons. "If this happens," he said, "you can say good-bye to the Republican Party in Massachusetts...
News reports of Chou's offer reached the White House just before the President flew into Washington for the day from Newport. After a two-hour luncheon session with all available National Security Council members, he and Dulles drafted a reply. Jacob Beam, U.S. Ambassador to Warsaw, was available to reopen talks with his Chinese opposite number, they wrote. "If the Chinese Communists are now prepared to respond, the United States welcomes that decision . . . Naturally ... we will not in these talks be a party to any arrangement which would prejudice the rights of our ally, the Republic of China...
Democrat Brown became a popular luncheon speaker on the subject. "Why I Left the Republican Party," made hundreds of new friends, joined every organization he could find (including the National Lawyers Guild, which he joined and quit in the 1930s, rejoined and quit again in the 1940s, when he finally discovered that it toed the Communist line. He ran for San Francisco County district attorney in 1939, lost, went out and made more friends, joined more clubs, ran again in 1943-and was elected...
...Kubitschek had indeed been pleading for anything, he might have deserved credit for a plea well presented. After a second meeting, Dulles dashed off for a luncheon talk before the American Chamber of Commerce, then flew to Brazil's new capital, Brasilia, for a farewell dinner with Kubitschek. Then he headed back for Washington, where at week's end the Export-Import Bank announced that credits totaling $58 million in favor of the Bank of Brazil had been granted by a consortium of U.S. private banks, along with a $100 million credit from the Export-Import Bank itself...
Part of Portland's trouble, according to one principal, is the tendency of civic groups to regard high schools as the source of "a fine captive audience and a supply of free talent." Businessmen's luncheon clubs are too inclined to call up a school music director and ask him to "send the band over at noon." Schools, too, have been at fault; one music director, who boasted of the size of his department, explained that frequent student performances at nonschool events were "good for our public relations." Promised Superintendent Edwards: Music teachers will be encouraged...