Word: muehlbach
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...side of the hall screamed, "!Viva!" and those on the other side howled back, "!Ole!" The convention nominated Gerald Ford anyway. Reagan would have to wait four years. I smoked three or four packs that day and, in the bluish cigarette haze of a room in the Muehlbach, wrote TIME's cover story: dreary convention, dismal story; hot, clear Kansas City summer outside. At least that's what I remember...
...driving 26 hours straight from Cambridge. It was a blazing prairie day; the streets baked, and the heat compounded my fatigue. The Republican National Convention had started that morning, and the town was swarming with conventioneers. My friend and I parked our car, and drifted uptown to the Radisson Muehlbach Hotel, where President Ford was due to arrive at any minute. We couldn't see anything for the milling Ford Youth and police lines, so my friend suggested we get a beer in the bar of the hotel across the street and watch the Ford motorcade from the bar window...
...were watching the madness, the contrived madness of the Ford Youth outside across the thin air-conditioned glass membrane. But it seemed the true madness was inside. Ford disappeared into the Muehlbach, Harry Truman's old hotel, and the onlookers began to disperse. My friend and I left the bar. The little girl was still delivering her spiel...
Truman has always considered the Missouri commencement an event not to be missed, one second only to his annual birthday party at the Hotel Muehlbach in Kansas City. Only last week he was again preparing the tribute to Missouri's World War I dead that he has voiced at every M.U. commencement since...
...promote Catholic labor unionism. An outspoken opponent of Manila's big business bosses, whom he accuses of exploiting the workers, Hogan won labor's respect last year when he walked a picket line in the strike of ground personnel against Philippine Air Lines, owned by Brewery (George Muehlbach Brewing Co., Kansas City. Mo.) Tycoon Andres Soriano (TIME...
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