Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had been summoned, all 200 of them, to rubber-stamp John L. Lewis' next move in the coal crisis. For three days a small brigade of U.M.W. local officials, whom imperious John L. calls his policy committee, had plumped themselves down in Manhattan hotel rooms (at the union's expense) to wait. They slept, ate, drank, played poker, smoked cigars and just sat-until the boss should deem it appropriate to speak. The three-week coal truce was due to expire midnight...
...deadline came & went: 400,000 miners left their jobs and glumly dug in for a "tough Christmas." Playing his role up to the hilt, labor's great ham let almost eleven hours go by before he lumbered into the Hotel Roosevelt ballroom and grandiloquently announced his decision: the miners could work, but only three days a week. The 200 committeemen removed their cigars and said, "Amen." Then they packed their bags and went home...
...military men in Paris had two quick preliminary meetings. While some of his aides went dancing on Montmartre, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, burned the midnight oil in his suite at the Crillon Hotel. At the final, plenary meeting, in the Navy Ministry, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson presided in a sky-blue satin chair, before a cheerful blaze of oak logs. It took just four hours (including changes of spelling at British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called...
...some such place as the revolving door of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, at one time or another, Suzy Stephenson might well have passed Cristina de Borbón. Suzy is a pertly pretty ex-model from Birmingham, Ala. Cristina, a long-lashed Spanish beauty who has 27 other given names, is a relative of the late Alfonso XIII. Both Suzy and Cristina were involved last week with rich South Americans named Antenor. Suzy was on her way in the door, Cristina...
Free on bond yesterday, Schafer explained that it cost him only $2 to go to the meeting from his hotel. But the return fare over the same route amounted to $2.15 more, he said...