Word: sheratons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first session was gaveled to order by State Democratic Chairman John M. "Pat" Lynch, a brawl among members of the Credentials Committee had to be stopped by Springfield police. And there was action aplenty outside the Convention hall. On Thursday morning McCormack called a press conference at the Sheraton-Kimball Hotel and charged Kennedy with lying about the number of times he has voted since turning...
...formal meetings stopped Thursday night, but the politicking via liquor and secret conference continued. Delegates and about half of Springfield mobbed the Sheraton lobby for free drinks and food supplied by the candidates. Peabody's bar dispensed the hard stuff for about five straight hours, but Kennedy limited his offering to coke, ginger ale, and Seven-Up, much to the dismay of several delegates...
...sold. Hollywood gave him a bit part in Advise and Consent as "Senator McCafferty," who dozes through most of the picture except for intermittent mouthing of flowery rhetoric. When he had nothing else to do, Ashurst spent hours chatting with elderly ladies in the lobby of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, where he lived. Always courtly and sprightly, he would sweep off his hat, bow deeply, and set the ladies swooning with his resonant "Good afternoon!" After Nebraska's Senator George Norris went down to defeat broken and embittered in 1942, Ashurst wrote to console him: "You speak...
While Ho prepared for his closing in Honolulu, Sheraton's President Ernest Henderson flew from Boston to New York and reserved five suites at Manhattan's posh Sheraton-East for the "principals" in his part of the closing. In both Honolulu and New York, representatives of the combine failed to show. Next day came word that Mrs. Felzer and Amalu were in Seattle-where Amalu had been hustled off to jail almost as soon as his plane landed...
...year-old Van Nuys, Calif., printer) lamented the $2,000-a-month salary he had been promised, Mrs. Felzer fretted over the $10,000 she had paid Chinn Ho as a binder on the big deal. Said Wheeler-Dealer Ho wonderingly: "It's like a fairy story." Echoed Sheraton's Henderson: "An Arabian Nights tale. I have thought of 20 different explanations for all this, but they are all too fantastic for belief." The only unfazed veteran of the episode was Sammy Amalu, who confidently announced that he planned to 1) raise his $6,500 bail; 2) beat...