Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From all over the world last week U.N. delegates, their families, assistants and secretaries poured into New York City by train, plane and luxury liner, for the opening of the Assembly at Flushing. More than 1,800 hotel reservations had to be made, canceled, adjusted and checked. There were questions galore. "Pakistan? Where's Pakistan?" asked a suspicious clerk at the Hotel Barclay...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was having a friendly dinner with visiting American Legionnaires at London's Savoy Hotel last week. As he referred to "this awful economic crisis," Bevin had a sudden thought. Said he to the Legion's former National Commander Paul Griffith: "I know, Commander, that you will forgive me for suggesting the other day at Southport that you should take the gold out of Fort Knox. It does not seem to have been a very popular speech in America." While the diners laughed, Bevin continued: "Well, I do not mind whether...
...huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...
...squatters have refused to budge from the two top floors of the building officially set aside for the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw. Offers of 150,000 zlotys ($1,500) per family have failed to move them. Meanwhile, the U.S. Ambassador has had to live in the dumpy, third-rate Hotel Polonia...
...that Jackie would have company when the Dodgers were on the road, Rickey persuaded a Negro newsman, Wendell Smith, to travel with the club. In two cities, Jackie said, he had hotel trouble; he was not welcome at the Chase, where the Brooklyn club stays in St. Louis, or at Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin. ("They fooled me," said Jackie. "I thought it would be St. Louis and Cincinnati...