Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your July 19 issue . . . there is a picture of the Terrace Plaza Hotel and a brief news item . . . The first sentence states, "Dowdy, old-fashioned Cincinnati gets a new hotel this week...
...Communists. She had met them with Golos in New York City. When she was in Washington she would telephone him and say, "This is Helen" (to some others she was "Joan" or "Mary") and arrange to meet him. Some times it was at a drugstore across from the Willard Hotel; some times it was at the National Gallery of Art. Did Remington understand what she wanted? Said Elizabeth Bentley: "Certainly." At their meetings, Remington was "very nervous, very jittery, obviously scared to death that anybody would find out he was doing this." But, said Miss Bentley, he brought her "scraps...
...painful hour last week, Candidate Henry Wallace met the press-and seemed to do his best to discredit himself completely with it. Publicists for his "Progressive Party" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had hopefully billed the session in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel as a press conference, but it quickly degenerated into a battle between a pale, harried Wallace and red-faced, angry newsmen...
Konspiratsia. At 11 p.m. the night of June 13, wrote Bigart, there was a knock at the door of his room in Belgrade's Hotel Moskva. "A young man of perhaps 20 ... pushed past me ... fell into a chair . . . 'Comrade,' he began, 'you had planned to return to Athens via Rome. Instead you will go via free Greece and interview General Markos. Is that agreeable?' Very tentatively, I said...
Where were the 5,000 steaks, the 2,500 lamb chops, the 2,500 Ibs. of ham that were supposed to arrive with the U.S. team? The team's special chef (borrowed from Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel) didn't know. Back in the kitchen the cooks spoke five languages, and he couldn't make him self understood in any of them...