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During the War and shortly thereafter the most fashionable hotel in Washington was the Shoreham at the corner of 15th and H Streets.* In 1929 it was dismantled and subsequently became an office building. Last week it became known that the Shoreham Building would be the Republican hive for the next four Democratic years at the Capitol...
...From the White House the President drove two miles to the Shoreham Hotel, delivered an address on taxation to 100 State legislators, drove back to the White House-all in 17 minutes...
...fraud in the American Metals case; Col. Thomas B. Felder, deceased; Charles Forbes, convicted of fraud as Director of the Veterans Bureau. Socially its meeting places were a green house on K Street, near the Department of Justice, and a house on H Street, next to the old Shoreham Hotel which backed on the city home of Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post, a big-hearted Harding friend...
...15th and H Streets in Washington, tall hats and striped trousers, glittering foreign orders and the brightest sparkle of cosmopolitan femininity, used to pass under a broad canopy and up red plush steps to the socially top-loftiest functions in the Capital. It was the Shoreham Hotel, a landmark. Vice Presidents lived at the Shoreham. Presidents waiting for the White House to be evacuated or renovated, stopped at the Shoreham. Diplomats dined and champagne bottles popped, even after Prohibition, at the Shoreham. . . . Last week it was announced that rough workmen would attack the Shoreham's ugly but distinguished copings...
...them looked forward to certain failure on "Swope's wild goose chase." Swope, striding about, exclaimed: "I'd rather put this over than anything else I ever did! They think I can't do it!" The evening before the National Committee met, the New Yorkers had dinner at the Shoreham Hotel. Swope sat with Charles Michelson, Charles S. Hand and John J. Leary, three of the World's ablest correspondents, at his elbow. Every few minutes he would turn to one or another of these correspondents : "Hand?call up New Hampshire!?[the New Hampshire National Committeemen]. Find...