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...audience was hardly worthy of the show: a mere collection of the nation's coal operators-men who recked little of such great echoes, and cared less. The Great Actor was holding forth behind closed doors, in the beige and green ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel. The business at hand, they crossly supposed, was a coal contract...
Three years ago, bustling, red-haired Mrs. Clarence Norton ("Gussy") Goodwin, a Washington socialite, organized a session of Spanish classes for friends in her Shoreham Hotel apartment. The teacher: a suave, rumba-dancing bachelor, Senor Ramon Ramos. When Bess Truman left to become First Lady, Gussy's class lost a star pupil...
Cried the Philadelphia Record, "John Lewis is brandishing a coal shovel over the heads of the American people again." But when he faced the operators and U.M.W. representatives in the ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week, John Lewis spoke softly. With just the right note of threat and regret, he said he hoped that "the public and Government will not be inconvenienced through stoppage or loss of tonnage vital to ... our war program...
...party several years ago at the Shoreham Hotel, Hook, flattened the late Representative P. L. Gassaway with one punch...
...hours after he had unassumingly assumed office and had been told by his mother, "Now, you behave yourself," the V.P., in a neat, dark blue double-breasted suit, set off for a round of receptions. He went to the swank Federal Room of the Statler Hotel, to the Shoreham, to the home of a friend. Sunday, it was the Statler again...