Word: shoreham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shoreham Hotel they waltzed it. The U. S. Marine Band, in Potomac Park, played it straight: Dee deedle dee dum dum, dum dum, dum dum. . . . Dee deedle dee dum dee dum dee dum. . . . Many another orchestra and soloist twanged and blared it. It was even played in Hawaiian style. A local radio station dramatized the life of its author. All this hullabaloo in Washington, D. C. celebrated a work which first took U. S. ears by storm 50 years ago: John Philip Sousa's The Washington Post March...
...Other Washingtonians faced the embarrassment in various ways. New York's Laborite Senator Wagner fled from the picket-bound Shoreham to Manhattan. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, C. I. 0. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray moved out of the Carlton, Mrs. Mordecai Ezekiel (whose husband is economist in the Department of Agriculture) picketed in evening dress. SECommissioner Jerome Frank stayed on at the Wardman Park Hotel and Senator & Mrs. Millard Tydings at the Shoreham. Those who passed the Mayflower picket line included the Bankheads (Senator & Speaker), Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Carter Glass, Walter George, Arthur Capper, Clyde Herring, Kenneth...
...friend of his neighbor, Senator-reject William Gibbs McAdoo, that California papers call him "Deputy Senator." In Washington he knew enough not to take the 20 job-hunting letters he received every day too seriously. Instead he read Jim Farley's instructive autobiography, dined with friends at the Shoreham Hotel, danced to his favorite tune- The Last Roundup. "This is just a honey-moon," he said...
...whoopee between the halves: Indian war dances, shag contests, crooners, swing bands and the intricate maneuvers of his 90-piece marching band. Most of all they liked the latest Marshall innovation: a rah-rah song, Hail to the Redskins, with music by Barnee Breeskin, band leader at the swank Shoreham Hotel, and words by one-time Cinemactress Corinne Griffith (Declasse, The Lady in Ermine), wife of Big Chief Marshall. The nine other owners of big-league professional teams, well aware that the Redskins have attracted the largest crowds (440,000 in 13 games) this season, are considering rah-rah songs...
...sole and unofficial host. Major H. M. Cunningham, superintendent of the Ford assembly plant alongside the Potomac in nearby Alexandria, Va. In Major Cunningham's Lincoln, the party purred past the Alexandria home of John L. Lewis, through the plant grounds, and back to Washington's swank Shoreham hotel, where Mr. Ford was lodged at $16 for the day in a two-room suite done in modernistic grey and yellow...