Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night the lid blew off. As Harry Truman slept five blocks away in his Hotel Muehlebach suite, thieves entered the Jackson County courthouse in downtown Kansas City. They blasted open the election board's vault with nitroglycerin, stole most of the grand jury's evidence: ballots, poll books and tally sheets. Cried Missouri's Republican state chairman: "The Pendergast machine under the protection of Harry S. Truman is as rampant and vicious as it was when directed by Harry Truman's mentor, Tom Pendergast...
Even outside the conference hall, there was no companionship between the factions, and no gaiety. Most delegates had modest accommodations in second-rate hotels (France's Daniel Mayer shared his room with four colleagues). Only the Rumanian delegate, Serban Voina, had a room in Zurich's best hotel, the lovely, luxurious Baur-au-Lac, whose terraces descend gently to Lake Zurich. Nevertheless, Zurich looked like another Eden to the delegates from poor, hungry countries. Said France's Salomon Grumback: "This city is so clean, you almost become dizzy...
...Britain," says the Herald guide frankly, "is very dollar-conscious," but there is a limit to the sacrifices some Britons would make for the sake of the almighty greenback. In London's West End last week, a hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book...
These stories, purred Hollenbeck, "resembled a kind of newspaper lynching party. . . . The families have been hustled from their hotel rooms . . . put into condemned tenements and the city lodging houses. . . . All in all, it was about as sorry an exhibition as the press-or a section of it-is capable of putting...
...Hotel accommodations, transportation, communications, etc. will be handled by the Japanese, though traders must pay for them. Businessmen will be able to travel freely, deal with any companies they please. But SCAP will continue a measure of control. At the beginning there will be no official exchange rate on the yen. A rate will be set by SCAP only when enough business has been transacted to make the rate realistic...