Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of this sardonic invocation was bent, shriveled old Comrade Corradetti, a devout diabolist from Benevento; he was addressing the 26th National Congress of the Italian Socialist Party in Rome's new Cinema Astoria. The "Front" of which he spoke was the new popular front into which the Communists had just invited their Socialist comrades in order to fight the Marshall Plan (TIME...
...members of the National Association of Manufacturers gathered for their annual meeting in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria last week, most of them were sure of the No. 1 bellyache of U.S. industry. It was inflation, complicated by a new round of union wage demands, and most of the NAMsters agreed on the cure put forth by General Motors' C. E. Wilson. Said he: the 40-hour week must go, at least temporarily...
...industry, whose aim is always to please the greatest number, last week staged its sequel to the big show put on by the Thomas Un-American Activities Committee. Fifty of the industry's top executives, representing virtually every U.S. film producer, got together in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. After two days of conferences, they fired the ten Hollywood writers and producers cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify whether or not they are Communists...
...Crimson ball-packer Chip Gannon, and Vince Moravec '47, Varsity captain, were honored with awards Saturday during the Pepsi-Cola Company football banquet at the Waldorf Astoria in New York...
Dick Harlow's 1947 squad may not be the top-ranking team in the nation, but tomorrow night they will dominate a banquet and ball in the Waldorf-Astoria to which more than 100 college football stars have been invited. The only complete team in the country to be so honored, the Crimson players and their guests will be the guests of Walter S. Mack '17, former Varsity football manager, at the affair given for the benefit of the Outdoor Cleanliness Association of New York. Mack is now president of the Pepsi Cola Company...