Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston to deliver an address on "The United States of America" at a St. Patrick's Day dinner of the Charitable Irish Society, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee was jovial and easy with reporters in his room at the Copley-Plaza last night. Minus coat, tie and collar, his six-foot bulk draped over the side of an armchair, he parried press questions and waxed very optimistic about Democratic chances next fall...
...Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court to make up their minds about TVA, workmen draped the elaborate Italian ceiling of the 64-ft. square courtroom with a cheap canvas screen. Also last week in Manhattan a onetime partner of the architect responsible for that classic pile across the plaza from the Capitol sued the architect's son and daughter for a sum estimated at a quarter of a million dollars...
...aunt, but after he learned storekeeping under his mother's stern tutelage, he adopted John as a formal middle name. He personally supervises Magnin's staff of buyers in Manhattan. A friendly, dignified little man, President Magnin lives with his wife at the Hotel Savoy-Plaza, always spends three months a year in Europe. The active San Francisco Magnin is his youngest brother, Vice President & General Manager Grover Arnold Magnin, 50, short and ruddy. He has just taken a duplex suite in the St. Francis Hotel near his matriarchal mother...
When New Year's came to the U. S. Supreme Court, a new desk and a group of filing cases appeared in the larger of the two rooms used by newshawks in the basement of the new Court building across the plaza from the Capitol. With the furniture, in moved a Court Clerk named Nelson A. Potter. Promptly the ungrateful Press announced even the Supreme Court now had a press agent. Actually Clerk Potter had been appointed to put an end to old complaints of the Press that it was unduly difficult to see or obtain copies of official...
...before the wedding newshawks found Bridegroom Davies at Manhattan's Hotel Savoy-Plaza, discovered that he had given his fiancee a diamond described as big as a 50-cent piece, reported him "extremely nervous." All arrangements for the ceremony and reception in Mrs. Hutton's huge private-elevator penthouse at No. 2 East 92nd St. were in Mrs. Hutton's capable hands. Few days before Mrs. Hutton managed to squeeze in the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Marjorie Post Hutton Free Food Station from which derives her tabloid title of "Lady Bountiful of Hell...