Word: luncheons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roads, and in medieval-looking Kabul-there was evidence of Russian achievement: the road to town was Soviet built, so were a silo and a milling and baking plant, so was a housing project. (U.S. aid has gone mostly for technical-assistance projects in the back country.) In his luncheon toast to the Moslem King, Ike stressed mutual "great spiritual values" and readiness to "advance the cause of freedom." The King, too, told Ike his troubles and seemed delighted that the President could understand his urgent geographical need to stress neutrality...
Johnson's first stop was Morganfield, Ky., for a luncheon huddle with Governor Bert Combs and ex-U.S. Senator Earle Clements. A probable conversational topic: Clements' appointment as Kentucky's commissioner of highways-a strategic spot where Kingmaker Clements can control the Kentucky delegation to next July's Democratic Convention. With the happy assurance that Kentucky's 31 delegate votes are as good as in his pocket, Johnson flew on to the Midwest in his rented red-and-white Beechcraft...
...listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that two's a crowd. They'll give us a choice of a vote for Checkers or a vote for a checkbook." But before a serious, nonpartisan service club luncheon in Des Moines, he picked a careful, solemn path. "I live by the rule that I am first a free man," he said, "then an American, a Senator of the United States, and a Democrat, in that order." Local Republicans and Democrats stood right up and cheered together...
...list of luncheons follows: CLUB DATE SPEAKER Worcester* Dec. 30 Thomas Bolles and Peter Frost Washington, D.C. Dec. 28 Roger Robinson and David Henry Eastern Michigan (Detroit) Dec. 28 Henry Lamar Akron, Ohio Dec. 29 " " Central Ohio (Columbus) Dec. 30 " " Dayton, Ohio Dec. 31 " " Rochester, N.Y. Dec. 26 Alex Bell Syracuse, N.Y. Dec. 28 " " Buffalo, N.Y. Dec. 29 " " Eastern New York (Albany) Dec. 30 " " San Diego, Cal. Dec. 17 Norman Shepard Chicago, Illinois Dec. 30 Prof. Franklin Ford Baltimore, Md. Dec. 29 Prof. Reuben Brower Kansas City, Kans. Dec. 23 (no speaker) Denver, Colo. Dec. 28 (no speaker) *dinner meeting...
...recent months, a flood of criticism has rolled down on the television industry for the way it runs its business, and all of it has been fully reported by the nation's daily and periodical press. Last week, at a luncheon for the Magazine Publishers Association in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, Leo Burnett, 68, bustling Chicago advertising-agency head (Leo Burnett Co., Inc., $102 million in annual billings), stepped up and threw some rocks in another direction: right at his listeners...