Word: statler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Motors, said President C. E. Wilson last week, made a small profit in July, will probably show one for August. But things were far from good. For the year as a whole, G.M. would still be in the red. Charlie Wilson met the press in Detroit's Statler Hotel and told why. His plain talking was characteristic, and significant, for G.M.'s troubles are the troubles of most U.S. mass production industries...
Three nights later he used the A.A.F.'s 39th anniversary dinner as a sounding board for foreign listeners. Rising up in the Hotel Statler's glittering ballroom in a cream-colored jacket, he gave a brief earnest of the U.S. postwar intent: "The U.S. wants no power, territory or reparations. All it wants is a just peace...
Newsmen who received this information at a hastily whipped-up press conference in Detroit's Statler Hotel were not surprised. (Some who had visited Willow Run last week had seen only one car on the assembly line.) Why Kaiser would put aside one car because of "tooling" difficulties, then start a new one for which more tooling must be done, was not explained...
...stately Congressional Room of Washington's modernistic Hotel Statler, 350 eager editors hunched forward in their chairs. On the platform were three Soviet journalists who had flown the ocean to be interviewed by the American Society of Newspaper Editors...
...himself to a lunch given by Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle, ate three bowls of chile. He spent an hour at a cocktail party thrown by Commodore James K. Vardaman Jr., his naval aide and nominee for the Federal Reserve Board. At week's end he dined at the Statler with the White House Correspondents' Association, and laughed good-naturedly at a skit parodying the tune: I'm Just Wild About Harry...