Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President set a new hand- grasp, torso-tug* record: 65 per minute for 16 minutes, total 1,040. ¶In the daily line of 700 to 1,000 handshakers were Evangelist "Billy" Sunday and his wife. "Stay to lunch," said the President. They did. (See RELIGION...
...Story. Jack, Charlie, Bill, whose surnames were respectively Pershing, Dawes, Bryan, were accustomed to eat together at Don Cameron's lunch counter in Lincoln, Neb. Said Mr. Dawes...
...Commotion. Boston business men assembled at lunch-1,000 of them-to honor the new President of their Chamber of Commerce. Owen D. Young and Jeremiah Smith Jr., "King of Hungary" (TIME, Feb. 23, HUNGARY), were star guests. So was Charles G. Dawes, of whom a speech was demanded: It was the way I said 'it ["Senate Rules"] not what I said, that gave rise to irritation in Washington. My grief over that irritation is somewhat tempered by a remark of George Bernard Shaw, that no offensive truth is properly presented unless it causes irritation...
Just seven years ago, Bainbridge Colby, personal friend of President Wilson, invited two steel men to lunch at Washington. Mr. Colby, later Secretary of State, was then a member of the U. S. Shipping Board. At lunch he begged one guest, Charles M. Schwab, to become Director General of the U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. The other guest, Eugene G. Grace, admonished Mr. Schwab, his business associate, to refuse...
...christening party proceeded to lunch with the shipbuilders, where speeches were made telling how the U. S. S. Saratoga could cross the Atlantic in four days, could supply electric current for a huge city, cost $45,000,000, will carry 72 planes, is an unprecedented monster (TIME...