Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal fees of $65,000 from the Boston Housing Authority under curious circumstances. Yes, replied Collins, he had done legal work for the Authority, but had never received the sum mentioned. In a counterattack, he said Powers had pocketed $140,000 tax-free from the proceeeds of a testimonial dinner held last March...
Spark Supplied. Back in New York, Rockefeller's inexperience in presidential campaigning tripped him at the glittering annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith...
...tell the people the hard facts of existence that face us." All told, the deceptively boyish Kennedy drew ten rounds of applause in nine minutes, a rout which lent poignant irony to Rocky's smiling remark, made to a friend as he surveyed the influential crowd before dinner: "I'm just a sand-lot player...
...Johnson, the peripatetic Brown said frankly that Johnson could never win the California primary, though he thought Missouri's Stuart Symington could. This was enough to start a cautious Symington-Brown boomlet, which Symington backers hope to push into a second stage next winter at a Symington testimonial dinner in Missouri-with Brown as the featured speaker and most favored veep. ¶In Norman, Okla., oil-rich Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr (himself a Democratic presidential hopeful in 1952) was quick to announce his support of Colleague Lyndon Johnson's candidacy. ¶ In Peoria, Ill., Lawyer Stephen Mitchell...
...Faculty Club, 11 Harvard and six M.I.T. economists gave a private dinner Monday night for the visitors...