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Technically, the Republicans were in town for a routine session of the National Committee. But, as one glance around the Taft suite confirmed, the meeting was an occasion for the first real show of strength for the 1952 Republican Convention. Across the street in the Fairmont Hotel, Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. set up Eisenhower headquarters on a smaller scale. California's Governor Earl Warren got little traffic either in his public suite at the Fairmont or his downtown hideout at the St. Francis. Candidate Harold Stassen arrived late, and few people bothered to seek him out. Taft...
...Truman than a morning without a brisk walk. As if to prove it, he canceled his regular walk on his first bright, breezy morning in San Francisco last week to try to make peace among California's demoralized, feuding Democrats. First he held court in his second-floor Fairmont Hotel suite for a procession of party leaders. Then he dropped down to the Fairmont's soft-lighted Gold Room for a lunch of crabmeat cocktail and turkey breast, and a full-throated political stump speech to Democrats from eleven Western states, Hawaii and Alaska...
...cream-colored, gold-trimmed Terrace Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel last week, 500 stockholders of Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd. (Dole products) sat in wide-eyed fascination. On the platform, in addition to a raft of dark-suited officers and directors, was a group of Hawaiian islanders decked out in bright and summery island garb. All were employees of the company; they were there to explain Hawaiian Pineapple's annual report to the stockholders...
Eastern New York (Albany): December 27, Dr. Donald L. Collins, 18 Circle Lane, Albany; Fairmont, West Virginia: James O. Watson '00, Fort Hill Farm, Fairmont; Houston, Texas: Ted H. Riggs, Niels Ehperson Building...
...When I was in the House," he said before 900 Democrats banqueting at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel, "I was told the difference between the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was that Senators were too old to have affairs. They only have relations. Ever since I got into the Senate, I have been trying to dispel that vile calumny-and not without success...