Word: cloakroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine Men in the Cloakroom. In 1940 British and Russian troops occupied Iran. Mossadeq's alien-baiting became more popular than ever. In 1944 he put through a bill forbidding the government to grant an oil concession to anyone without legislative permission. Since this was aimed at the Russians, who were trying to extract an oil concession in northern Iran, the Iranian Communists called Mossadeq a British agent. He never got over the insult...
...dinner and reception at the French Embassy. The 64 dinner guests had scarcely done with their sumptuous meal when hundreds of other guests, invited to the reception, started queueing up on the embassy grounds. Only a trickle of guests were admitted at a time, to avoid confusion at the cloakroom. At 11:30, an hour after the doors opened, the queue still-extended for a block. One impatient Senator was heard to mumble: "It is a strange way to wish us to vote the right way for them...
...case was progressing (the state is ordering McCarthy to explain his nonpayment of last year's taxes). Forthwith the burly Senator grabbed the 6-foot columnist by the neck and invited him outside to fight. Pearson agreed. They were duly separated, but when Pearson went to the cloakroom McCarthy followed, and pinned the columnist by the arms...
...Netherlands and Prince Bernhard brought along 4,000 Dutch "Happiness" roses, six palace chefs and the royal silver service. After the party there were presents for the hard-working staff-including the hotel manager (the Chevalier of the Order of Orange-Nassau) and the seven porters, seven cloakroom attendants and two carriage lackies (bronze medals of honor...
...Reporters Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen whirled to journalistic fame on the Washington Merry-Go-Round. The book, and its continuation in a daily column of the same title, told the backstairs story of Washington politics with all the urgency of a cloakroom whisper, and the crusading fervor of a revival meeting...