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...Among them: Occidental Life Insurance Co., Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Avco Manufacturing Corp., Philadelphia Co., Standard Gas & Electric, Duquesne Light Co., ACF-Brill Motors, Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd., Republic Steel Corp., Washington's Carlton and Wardman Park hotels...
...idea of a good lunch is not a Salade Alfred nibbled to the music of violins in the velvety Carlton Hotel, but a rosy apple gnawed at his desk, or a delicatessen lunch thrown together in his office with fruits, home-canned goods and cheeses sent to him by friendly farmers. His idea of relaxation is reading law books. A Mormon,* he never smokes, sips a Scotch highball only when it seems to be the necessary social gesture. Yet, while maintaining the appearance of the man who gets lost behind a potted fern at cocktail parties, the Secretary of Agriculture...
...past 15 years the C.I.O.'s President Philip Murray has been a regular boarder at Washington's fashionable Hotel Carlton, one of the capital's best addresses and a place the President has often used for official entertaining. But last week, callers were politely told that Mr. Murray was no longer registered at the Carlton. Murray had moved across the street and down the block to the Hay-Adams, and for a reason...
...reason was George Weaver, a Negro who is director of the C.I.O.'s Committee to Abolish Discrimination. A couple of months ago, Weaver went to a party at the Carlton with the C.I.O.'s Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey. When they left the party, the elevator operator refused to take Weaver down: he would have to use the back stairs...
Carey insisted. The operator summoned an assistant manager and the house dick. They were adamant. Weaver and Carey walked down the back stairs together. Said the Carlton's manager: "We do not permit [Negroes] in here. Our guests . . . do not want to meet them in the halls." Murray moved...