Word: muehlebach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...racketeering in Kansas City. Six thousand non-diners watched and applauded from the flag-bedecked balconies. An army of harried waiters served 3,000 tenderloin steaks without allowing more than minor peripheral cooling to set in-no mean achievement since all had come from the kitchen of the Muehlebach Hotel, three full blocks away...
...buddy of Artilleryman Harry Truman and Truman's partner in the Kansas City haberdashery that went bankrupt after the war. President Truman, who "was spending the holidays in Missouri, had been asked to send a telegram to Eddie, but instead he dropped in unexpectedly at the Muehlebach Hotel for lunch. His old friends were delighted...
...Excelsior Springs, 22 miles north of Kansas City. There he had a mineral bath, a rubdown, a sandwich and a glass of buttermilk. By 7 o'clock he was in bed. His aides, who were established in the eleventh-floor penthouse suite of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, were gloomy; they had felt all along that election night would be like a wake. Harry Truman woke up several times during the night and telephoned to the Muehlebach. At about 4:30 a.m. he woke up again and beard better news...
...East, the traditions of the South (e.g., separate schools for Negroes), and the friendliness and vigor of the West. It annually holds the famed American Royal Livestock and Horse Show, sends steaks to half the continent, and has already placed a plaque on the spot (in the Muehlebach Hotel) where Harry Truman signed the first Greek-Turkish aid bill...
That night the lid blew off. As Harry Truman slept five blocks away in his Hotel Muehlebach suite, thieves entered the Jackson County courthouse in downtown Kansas City. They blasted open the election board's vault with nitroglycerin, stole most of the grand jury's evidence: ballots, poll books and tally sheets. Cried Missouri's Republican state chairman: "The Pendergast machine under the protection of Harry S. Truman is as rampant and vicious as it was when directed by Harry Truman's mentor, Tom Pendergast...