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...following incident. He was present himself, he says. Last month during the ill-fated munitions investigation, when J. P. Morgan had come down from New York to air his views on finances and housemaids, the law school professor saw him late one afternoon in the lobby of the Shoreham. J. P. was standing alone in front of one of the big windows, looking out over snow-covered Rock Creek Park, whistling a gay tune aloud. On his way to the bar our friend stopped for a moment; he thought he had heard the song some place before...
...including Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman, Malvina Thompson Scheider and Marguerite ("Missy'') Le Hand, and wearing a necklace of tiger's claws, the President's wife went successively from the Raleigh to the Willard, to the Washington, to the Mayflower, to the Wardman Park, to the Shoreham Hotel where she cut a great cake into pieces flung as largesse to the crowd...
...aspirations. Although the usual way to nail a foreign job is to play "fat cat" to the Administration in power at home, Joe Davies recently entertained French Ambassador André de Laboulaye and Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso with their respective staffs at lavish stag dinners in Washington's Shoreham Hotel. Joe Davies' best bet seems to be the U. S. Embassy in Paris, for Jesse Straus, present U. S. Ambassador to France, is supposed to be ready to retire because of poor health. Some opposition for the Paris post might come from Anthony J. Drexel ("Tony") Biddle...
...Though he rated as the Senate's foremost frequenter of night clubs, spry, fun-loving old Senator McAdoo was not one to enjoy single life. Social Washington was fully prepared to see him marry one of the gay young women with whom he often danced at the swank Shoreham Hotel. But it was vastly surprised to learn one day last week that Senator McAdoo, on the eve of the golden anniversary of his first wedding, was about to marry one Doris Cross, 24. Miss Cross had entered Senator McAdoo's California home as a nurse shortly after finishing...
...that session one of Senator Black's servers thrust into his hands a subpena ordering him to appear instanter before the Senate Committee. The Senate Committee waited for him all afternoon but he did not appear. That night Sergeant Jurney made the search which ended so surprisingly at the Shoreham. Next day Representative O'Connor and Senator Black were again at swords' points, for it turned out that Mr. Hopson had a good excuse for not appearing before the Senate on the previous afternoon : the House Committee had had him testifying at a secret session. If the Senate was going...