Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoped that "no undue delicacy will delay our taking up ... things of a more personal character." With no delicacy whatever, Hughes launched into his accusation. "I charge specifically that during a luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel [in Washington] in the week beginning Feb. 10, 1947, in the suite of Senator Brewster, that the Senator told me in so many words that if I would agree to merge Trans World Airline [which Hughes controls by owning 46% of its stock] with Pan American and would go along with his community airline bill, there would be no further hearings in this matter...
...many a plush hotel where the British dinner jacket once gave the evening scene the aspect of a penguins' conclave, the dhoti (loin cloth), sherwani (tunic), jibba (smock) and achkan (long coat) now held pride of place. Rohini Kumar Chowdhry, Assam's long-haired, wild-eyed member of the Constituent Assembly, demanded a special clause in the new Constitution's bill of rights to forbid any hotel displaying "Evening Clothes Only...
...Itamarati Palace itself, Foreign Office officials were too busy with details of President Truman's September visit to have even settled the hour of the conference's opening at the Quitandinha Hotel. Nor had places been found for delegates to stay. Secretary Marshall, with a Quitandinha suite, an office in the Rio Embassy and the promise of a house, was lucky. But delegates who looked forward to long Rio weekends would have to scramble for rooms...
Navy Ahoy. Of recent years, Duke Sam's exclusiveness has begun to fray around the cuffs. Except for the war boom, his company, which controls three golf courses (including Pebble Beach and Cypress Point), two hotels and a beach-sand processing plant, has lost money from 1932 on. When the U.S. Navy took over his famed 400-room Del Monte Hotel as a wartime training center, Duke Sam began to wonder if naval officers would not be a possible mainstay for the new depression he feared. So-why not sell the Navy his Del Monte Hotel...
Last week, President Truman signed a bill authorizing the Navy to buy (for $2,149,000) Duke Sam's Del Monte Hotel as a postgraduate "Little Annapolis" for naval officers. By then, Duke Sam was already busy planning a model village, including a $320,000 shopping center, to house the 12,000 to 15,000 instructors, students, wives, servants, etc. he expects to live near the school. On the site of the present Del Monte golf-course clubhouse, he is planning a new Del Monte Hotel to house non-naval customers. As the Navy officers come...