Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That afternoon they got their first look at their old commander at a reception in the ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel. Other people clapped politely. The aging cutups of Battery D let out a roar...
Orders from the Captain. The big events came next day. Harry Truman had told them to be at the Mayflower Hotel by 7 "and not at 7:10 or 7:15." Captain Harry was twelve minutes early. "Everyone here?" he snapped. "Where's the cook? Let's have breakfast." Grinning, a little selfconscious, they all sat down. Someone started to call him "Mr. President." Harry Truman commanded: "With this outfit I'm the captain, and that's an order...
...cheerless lobby of Mexico City's Hotel Ambos Mundos one night last week, General Jesús H. Alva sat stroking his huge mustache. He was reminiscing about the old days when he was one of Pancho Villa's Dorados ("golden" shock troops). As he talked, the 70-year-old general played with a wooden bullet. "Son," he said to a bystander, "they sent us these, thinking that we wouldn't be able to fight with them. That trick could not stop the Dorados...
Leon Campbell, Pickering Memorial Astronomer, will be honored by 125 colleagues for his 50 years of service at the College Observatory at a dinner at the Hotel Continental tonight...
Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan has vetoed junior and sophomore class plans to hold their joint spring formal at Boston's Hotel Somerset, junior class vice-President Eleanor Larsen announced yesterday...