Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colombia's Liberal chieftain, whose assassination had touched off Bogotá's insurrection. Later, he wired: "Since the shooting ended, life has settled down to trying to cover the Pan American Conference, which is five miles away, get stories written, and still be in the hotel before the 7 p.m. curfew. If you are out after that, you risk being shot first and identified later...
Most of the correspondents were lunching in their headquarters at the newly rebuilt Hotel Astor, across the street from the presidential palace, when they heard the news of the assault on Gaitán. They expected trouble and, within 30 minutes, got it. The Army took over their hotel as a strong point to defend the palace, and Dozier spent his first beleaguered night trying to sleep while two soldiers banged away at snipers from his bedroom window...
...much time will elapse before a new contract is drawn up is a matter of conjecture. A spokesman of Local 8, Hotel and Club Employees Union, AFL, has predicted that it will be at least two and a half months, but other observers have set a lower estimate...
American's "only choice for survival" rests with immediate steps toward making possible a world government. United World Federalists chairman cord Meyer, Jr. told an audience of over 150 at the Second Annual AVC Banquet last night in the Hotel Commander...
President Conant will speak on "off-the-record" topics barred from press coverage at Thursday night's Second Annual AVC Banquet in the Hotel Commander, chapter chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 said yesterday...