Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athens' Acropole Palace Hotel, a U.N. commission was hearing witnesses on Greece's imbroglio with her northern neighbors. From Washington came an Olympian statement from Secretary of State Marshall, welcoming Greece's new coalition Government but warning that it must put Greece's chaotic house in order before it could expect more U.S. help...
...Embassy staff in Rio was doubly surprised last week. In the first place, they did not realize that Dr. Irene Diggs, the State Department exchange student for whom they had booked a hotel reservation, was a Negro. And they did not dream that in Brazil, which has enough mixed blood to have almost forgotten race distinctions, a hotel would turn a Negro away...
...that was what happened when trim, 40-year-old Ellen Irene Diggs, Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology at the University of Havana, registered at Rio's new, 2O-story Hotel Serrador. Dr. Diggs went off without fuss to another hotel. But when word of the Hotel Serrador's decision got around, she became quite a figure in the news and editorial pages of an angry Brazilian press. Cried Rio's Democracia: "In a land where race discrimination is not the concern of statesmen or a headache for sociologists ... an incident like this demands an explanation." Said...
Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia finished his cross-country tour of the U.S., prepared to head for home this week after a month's visit. Detroit, where Prince & party occupied two entire floors of a hotel, would not soon forget him. He saw the auto capital's numerous postwar wonders, but what he really wanted, he said firmly, was one of those good old 1936 Pierce-Arrows. His father's-very roomy and comfortable-was wearing...
...there was still a big "if" to European travel. Tourist applications for passports had to be accompanied by a statement "showing that [the applicant] has fixed return transportation [and] reserved hotel or other accommodations to take care of his food and lodging while abroad...