Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Additional "information" supplied by the stranger was that Gardiner was staying at the Hotel Dixle. A quick call by his father showed that no Sylvester Gardiner was registered...
Last week he left Washington with his wife and son Ralph, who were going to London with him. Arriving in New York, they checked in at the swank St. Regis Hotel, where they had reserved a suite on the eighth floor. Next day, he went to a luncheon given for him by his old friend Eric Johnston at the Waldorf-Astoria...
...Morrisons left early, realizing that the Gardners had a tiring day ahead. Max Gardner was in bed by 10 o'clock. Five hours later, he awoke with a sharp pain in his chest. The hotel's doctor was summoned. At 5 a.m. a heart specialist was called. Examination showed that a blood clot was blocking off the blood from Max Gardner's heart. At 8:25 a.m. the starved heart stopped. Oliver Max Gardner was dead. It would be hard to find as good a man to fill his place...
Party Clothes. One night last week, Ethridge left a party aboard the French cruiser Georges Leygues (which had carried him to Greece) and returned to the Hotel Acropole Palace, the Commission's headquarters. There, Commission Secretary Roscher-Lund, a Norwegian, excitedly confronted him with piles of petitions asking the Commission to intercede for the condemned five. Some were signed by families, many by carefully organized Leftist groups. Ethridge and Lund called up Alexis Kyrou, liaison man with the Greek Government, who arrived in a state of urbane sleepiness; they told him "unofficially" that it might be a good idea...
...invested in real estate. But in Antioquia, industrial joint stock companies have achieved a fabulous development. Even the housemaids follow the stockmarket. The biggest investor in the Cia. Colombiana de Tabaco, the country's No. 2 enterprise, owns no more than 3% of the stock. When a new hotel or steel plant is launched, the stock issue is subscribed practically overnight. It is as though every Antioquian peso were motorized to rush into the breach at the first opportunity...