Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner had the Tafts bustled back to Washington than Tom Dewey flew into Grand Island from Albany. Standing bareheaded on a sound truck outside the Yancey Hotel, he apologized for his late arrival. Said he: "I ran into headwinds. I am tired of headwinds. I ran into a strong headwind in Wisconsin and I don't want any more...
...East, the traditions of the South (e.g., separate schools for Negroes), and the friendliness and vigor of the West. It annually holds the famed American Royal Livestock and Horse Show, sends steaks to half the continent, and has already placed a plaque on the spot (in the Muehlebach Hotel) where Harry Truman signed the first Greek-Turkish aid bill...
...Calgary hosts promptly whisked her ten miles out to the Sarcee Indian reserve. There, during the Indians' annual Easter dance, Chief David Crowchild decreed that she should be known to all Sarcees as Sootz-ah-tsa (Shining Star). As Barbara Ann headed back to her Palliser Hotel suite, Calgary Albertan Reporter Art Evans took over for the final ecstatic burble: "Obviously tired but wearing the thrill of her Indian adoption like a happy mantle, Shining Star quietly slipped away to her tepee, there to dream of cool waters, soft winds, and the Great Manitou who guards the sleep...
Early one morning last May, a fear-stricken Negro woman rushed from a Philadelphia hotel, jumped into a car and headed for New York. A federal narcotics agent whom she had nearly run over fired several shots after the speeding car. In her hotel room, officers found 1½ grains of heroin. Two weeks later, sobbing the blues for sure, Jazz Singer Billie Holiday was on her way to do a year and a day at the Federal Reformatory for Women at Alderson...
Meanwhile, hearings at the State Board of Mediation continued without success this week. Local 6, Hotel and Club Employees Union, AFI, filed a complaint with the State Labor Relations Board charging the Club with unfair labor practices...