Word: muehlebach
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...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...
...strain was beginning to tell on the President. Each morning he drove the 17 miles to Grandview from his suite in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, spent the day working on urgent letters and messages to the Capitol. Whenever his mother woke, he joined the rest of the family at her bedside. In the evening he returned to Kansas City to work again until bedtime...
...quiet, pleasant weekend, a welcome change from the Washington hurlyburly. He found his mother pert and chipper, saw his old Battery D mates, went early to bed after dinner in his Hotel Muehlebach suite. His only official duty was a three-minute radio address in honor of Franklin D. Roosevelt...