Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor leader, Atlantic City was filled with memories. In the President Hotel, John Lewis and his followers had plotted their great rebellion in 1935 against the A.F.L. and laid the foundation of a rival C.I.O. In the tarnished ballroom of the Chelsea Hotel, John had given the carpenters' Bill Hutcheson a punch on the jaw (1935). In the same room, in 1940, John resigned the presidency of C.I.O. and Phil Murray mournfully became his successor. Murray had no reason now to feel any happier about...
With the football season came the weekends of the Big Game and the dance in the college gym or the local ballroom afterwards. The collegiate circuit, which had brought many a big-money dance band (Glen Gray, the late Glenn Miller) to the top, was in full swing. This season a new face, and a surprisingly young one, had cornered the market: 21-year-old Elliot Lawrence...
Attempts to make it a swanky hotel, with imported bands, failed (Glen Gray's Casa Loma orchestra was named after the castle). Eventually, the Kiwanis Club rented it on a share-the-profit plan, used the big ballroom for dances and receptions. This, plus 75,000 tourists a year, netted the council an annual...
...Montreal, Alexander Navarro Fernandez (or was it Carlos Lados?) from Spain (or was it Austria?) was known as "Count Navarro." He was a dapper little man with hollow cheeks, a dab of grey mustache, and a heel-clicking ballroom manner. He lived here & there, but he liked best the expensive elegance of the Mount Royal Hotel...
...drawing room, and then the King led the way for a hike around the place. Dinner was at 8; grouse from the royal moors was seryed, and the guests dined to the squeal of the King's pipers. Everybody danced reels and flings that night in the castle ballroom, and Captain John danced with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Margaret got Ike's autograph before he left...