Word: hollenden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in their dove-papered suite in Cleveland's Hotel Hollenden (just a short way from where Murderer Robert Irwin was working as a bar boy-see p. 11), the members of the Federal Steel Mediation Board did their best to arrange a permanent peace. A compromise proposal- that the steel companies make agreements subject to Labor Board elections-was turned down flat by the steelmasters, though Mediator Charles Phelps Taft II was sure that the union would have accepted it or some variant of that proposal. The steel companies now maintained that the question was not. and never...
...Knox supporters looking gloomily about their camp in Hotel Cleveland's ballroom after Landon's nomination and saying "Well, this is the 8-ball room, all right. . . ." John Hamilton sitting on a hotel breakfast table, white napery included, to interview the press. . . . The orchestra in Hotel Hollenden's cocktail room playing Happy Days Are Here Again at the instigation of a newshawk and none of the roomful of Republicans recognizing the tune...
...enthusiasm for Candidate Frank Knox. Bald-domed Carl Bachmann from West Virginia bustled for Candidate Borah. But the spotlight burned steadily on the sleek, curly head of young John Hamilton, manager for Alf Landon. Perched on the back of an overstuffed chair in Cleveland's old-fashioned Hollenden Hotel, Hamilton had the Press basking at his feet as he announced that Landon would have over 300-no-over 400 votes, perhaps a majority (502 votes) on the first ballot...
...Guardian Trust had affiliated security and real estate companies which it used to conceal losses including between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 sunk in the Hollenden Hotel...
...smoking, bridge-playing boss. He himself had put Mr. Hopkins into office, only to become displeased with him, plot his removal. It was not until just before last week's meeting that he was able, after three unsuccessful party caucuses, to assemble another in Room 1050 at the Hollenden Hotel, three blocks from City Hall, to line up the 13 council votes necessary for City Manager Hopkins' removal. To succeed Mr. Hopkins, the Maschke councilmen chose State Senator Daniel E. Morgan...