Word: muehlebach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again-this time aboard the presidential train, leaving Mamie at the White House. At his first full stop, in Defiance. Ohio, he laid the cornerstone of the Anthony Wayne Library (see EDUCATION), then switched to his plane, the Columbine, for the flight to Kansas City. There, in the Muehlebach Hotel penthouse that was built especially for Harry Truman, Ike welcomed the visiting governors at a private dinner party. Afterward, he addressed a meeting of the Future Farmers of America in the Municipal Auditorium. His speech, billed as a major enunciation of farm policy, was vague and disappointing, but the Future...
...green Tea Room of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel one morning last week, Dwight Eisenhower sat down with the governors of twelve states to work on a crucial problem: drought. Almost every state in the U.S. has been affected, one way or another, by 1953's hot, dry weather. The first state in which dryness turned to drought and drought turned to disaster was Texas (TIME, July 6). By last week, sections of 13 states* had been declared disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Missouri, where the President and the governors met to attack the problem...
Nixon, talking from his train at Chico, Calif., objected strongly to any such pilgrimage of humiliation. He had a counterproposal: he would dictate a statement and Ike could issue it for him. Seaton flew back to join the Eisenhower staff in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel. After an hour's conference, Ike's advisers decided that Ike should preface his forthcoming evening speech-on corruption in government-with Dick Nixon's formal statement...
...operation at Independence Sanitarium. He sent his excuses to a big meeting of the Truman Democratic Club, held especially in his honor. But as always, on his vacation visits, he received old cronies and the political faithful at his headquarters in the penthouse of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel...
...bought mines, dairies, factories, forests, a radio station, owns the third largest Coca-Cola bottling franchise in the world, acts as Philippine agent for five insurance firms, distributor for Philip Morris cigarettes and Lord Calvert whiskey. Nor are his interests purely local. He controls Kansas City's George Muehlebach Brewing Co., bosses gold mines in British East Africa, a development company in Spain. His holdings stretch so far & wide that one top executive, who has been with him 15 years, says: "I still haven't been able to memorize even the names of all the companies...