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...front cover) On a long shiny table in Room 800 B of Washington's new Shoreham Hotel was signed one night last week the biggest, most significant work-&-wage contract in the history of U. S. labor. At one end of the table, his beefy bulk overflowing the chair, sat John Llewellyn Lewis, black-maned, bushy-browed president of United Mine Workers of America. At the other end was the thin, rigid figure of John De Lorma Adams Morrow, president of Pittsburgh Coal Co., who also heads the potent Northern Coal Control Association. Loudly and often had Operator Morrow...
Coast guards at Shoreham, England, surveying a stormy sea, saw a white speck fluttering in the dusk. Three miles out they found weary-armed James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary for Dominions, tugging at an oar in a stalled motorboat with three fishing companions...
...confused with the new Shoreham, an apartment hotel off upper Connecticut Avenue...
Owner of the Shoreham Building is dapper, aggressive Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. Shrewd at business as well as politics, Secretary Hurley, onetime mule boy in an Indian Territory mine, has been successfully leasing Shoreham office space to his G. 0. P. cronies. Last week he caught the best of all possible Republican tenants when President Hoover, in the name of Lawrence Richey, his detective-secretary, took a four-room suite to serve as a political watchtower overlooking the Democratic scene. Sooner or later wise Washingtonians expected to see this lettering on the door: HERBERT HOOVER, CONSULTING ENGINEER...
...same floor Vice President Charles Curtis has taken a three-room suite. Mr. Curtis is debating which of five secret offers of employment he will accept after March 4. Other eminent G. 0. Politicians with Shoreham offices: Everett Sanders, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Ray Benjamin, Hoover adviser from California; Edward Tracy ("Ted") Clark, Coolidge secretary; Col. William Joseph ("Wild Bill'') Donovan, onetime Assistant to the Attorney General; Mabel Walker Willebrandt. onetime Assistant Attorney General. Owner Hurley will have a 16-room suite in his building where he will practice law with an as yet unnamed Washington...