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...CARLTON HOLLENBECK...
...told the movers to resume work. The policeman scratched his head. The detectives sent for a lawyer. The Duchess sent for hers. After a long conference between Duchess, lawyers, detectives and policeman, the vans drove off. Gladys of Marlborough walked out of her house, down the street to the Carlton Hotel...
...Teagle wanted him to refuse. Mr. Moffett's argument: the offered appointment was virtually a command from the President which it would be lese majeste to decline. Mr. Teagle's argument: two Standard Oil men on one committee would be too many. Meeting one morning in the Carlton Hotel in Washington Mr. Teagle put to Mr. Moffett an ultimatum: refuse the appointment or quit Standard...
...recovery plan and a set of recommendations on U. S. policy at the London Conference. When a citizen in Oklahoma sent a telegram to "Bernard M. Baruch. Unofficial President of the United States." Mr. Baruch, no seeker after glare and glory, retired to his suite at the Carlton Hotel. "I'm not even a $1-a-year man." he joked, trying to dampen reports of his semi-official importance. "I'm an 85? a year man. The President has reduced all Federal salaries...
...side in a spindly little chair watching the proceedings. Clustered about him were his partners. Not a day passed but the country was told the pattern of his suit, the color of his tie. When the afternoon session was over Mr. Morgan would return to the Carlton Hotel, opposite the White House, where he and his friends were paying $2,000 per day for five floors. &3134; There he would dress, dine quietly, go early to bed. He made no off-stage appearances about Washington in the evening. In the committee room Senators found him an easy, pleasant gentleman...