Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the 400-odd gridiron guests: Tammany Chief John Francis Curry, Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin, Senatorial Host Walter J. Fahy, National City Bank President Gordon John Rentschler, the Governors of Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Maryland; Senator Grundy (very popular), but not Senator Brookhart.
Twice a year a terrific crash in the darkened ballroom of the New Willard Hotel in Washington startles the President of the U. S.. his Cabinet, Class A senators and congressmen, prime foreign envoys, many a tycoon of business and politics. Suddenly a jester rushes in upon them with...
Member in the Dark: I'll bet they're keeping Johnson out of this dinner by an inadvertence.
For laymen a gridiron evening constitutes a stiff examination in political current events. For professional politicians it is a trying game like "Truth." Last week President Hoover good naturedly watched his "Commission-a-Month Club" recess before it became a "Commission-a-Minute Club." The Hoover "Naval Yardstick" was brought...
Vengeance for bolting the Democratic Party in the last presidential election fell on Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama last week when the State Democratic Executive Committee read him out of the party (27-21). The 120,000 rank-and-file Alabama Democrats who voted for Hoover were not drummed...