Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University American Veterans Committee lashed out this week at what it called "uninformed intolerance" in the recent action of the Commander Hotel when it canceled a "send-off" dinner for 35 Armenian-Americans who were about to return to Soviet Armenia...
Three weeks ago Pieter was on his way to Tanganyika on a dowsing expedition. En route he stopped at a hotel in Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia. Pieter wanted a shower. But peer as he would, Pieter could see no moonbeams glinting from the plumbing in his hotel bathroom. Salisbury was in the midst of an acute water shortage. Pieter called his manager. The manager called the mayor, who just then was sitting, racking his brains over the water crisis, in a tub containing two meager inches of water. When Pieter's manager offered to help, the mayor...
That evening, company foremen were guests at a champagne-confetti blowout at Boston's Copley-Plaza Hotel, heard a short pep talk: "You've done a damn good job, guys," said President Joseph P. Spang Jr., "but in the same breath I want to say we're still behind on our orders. We want to get that old man's face in every store in the world...
Mangabeira had long sessions with close-mouthed President Dutra. In the wicker-chaired lobby of the musty-genteel Central Hotel, Army officers, party leaders and Cabinet Ministers waited their turn to join the sessions in his room. The likely outcome: an agreement to forget petty politicking in Congress and tackle the nation's considerable economic ills together. Perhaps later Brazil would have a coalition cabinet...
Kicked out again, Octávio got along in Europe on handouts from his brother João, a rich socialist. World War II sent him, along with many another refugee, to the U.S. Friends, who found a New York hotel suite for Mangabeira, wife Esther and their two grown children, told him that the rent was $90 a month and paid the difference. He has since repaid them. Within six months, Mangabeira had picked up enough English to get a job doing translations for the Reader's Digest. Not so apt with languages was wife Esther, who sometimes...