Word: anterooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Telephone & Telegraph anteroom on lower Broadway, the competitive bidding fight drew to a close early this week. Anti-competitors won all the arguments, but lost the prize...
...dark, gloomy Luis Muñoz Marin, president of Puerto Rico's Senate, paid a call at the White House, was ushered into the anteroom of Franklin Roosevelt's military aide, Alabama-born Edwin ("Pa") Watson...
Friday afternoon the President conferred first with the Secretaries of War and Navy, then with the NDAC. It was getting dark when Secretary Steve Early went out into the anteroom, told the few newsmen that whatever was to be said would have to come later from the Boss himself. Then came an unexpected summons to one of the rare (three or four) nonscheduled press conferences the President has held in the past four years. Grabbing pencils & paper, they made for the office, were soon scribbling notes on the best White House story in weeks...
...Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master. Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf Hitler...