Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while delivering a lecture on the discourtesy of unannounced snapshooting. He pushed another of the photographers out the door. There was the evening when Alumnus Charles Evans Hughes, '81, attended a Brown University alumni dinner and was caught by the camera beaming happily over a plate of oysters, the twinkle in his eye not betraying the fact that before the week was out he was to be the opposition's first big witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And there was another evening when Justice McReynolds attended, as he usually does, the annual banquet of his fraternity...
...that might have been in October. "I travel around so much I don't know where I am half the time," he apologized. "I am here but I don't know what it's all about and I'd rather be back of the plate. You know what to look for back there. This is something...
...grim warning to future offenders, the following terse announcement has been pasted as a book-plate in all the volumes which have since been recovered: "This book was stolen from the Harvard Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor...
...Democrats' national treasurer, tried a new method of raising Democratic dollars. Last week that method was used again, to raise funds to reduce the $430,000 Democratic campaign deficit. From coast to coast 1,262 Victory Dinners were held. To every dinner where the price was $5 a plate or more, the Democratic Speakers Bureau dispatched a Senator, a Congressman or other notable Democrat, the rank of the speaker being roughly proportioned to the price of admission...
...Swope. No less than 20 reliable Senators and over 30 Congressmen spoke hither & yon. How much all these dinners netted, Democratic statisticians had not yet calculated, but the gross take of the dinner-of-dinners at Washington was a matter of simple arithmetic: 1,300 dinners times $100 a plate equaled...