Word: statler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Cambridge hotels uniformly turned down requests for rooms for the entire weekend, Boston establishments allowed that some were available, but expected that the few remaining rooms would be gone by nightfall. The Statler's reservation desk told the CRIMSON. "If you are going to make reservations, you'd better move fast...
When his good and wealthy friend, Willys-Overland Executive Ward Canaday, asked him to attend a businessman's dinner party at the Statler Hotel last week, Harry Truman obligingly agreed. He was under the impression that no more than 15 or 20 men would attend, and that he would not be obliged to speak. At dinnertime, he got into his dinner jacket, slipped quietly over to the hotel for a few hours of comfortable relaxation...
...days of sightseeing and lectures. Dwight called on his Congressman, Republican Carl Hinshaw ("A commanding personality," Dwight thought), then on to Harry Truman, on whom he had no comment for the press. On the last night, he and his 39 colleagues crowded into the Presidential Room of the Hotel Statler with 300 other guests to hear who would win Westinghouse's $2,800 and $2,000 college scholarships. There were consolation awards for everybody else: eight $400 scholarships and 30 prizes of $100 each...
...five days last week in Manhattan's Statler Hotel, some 12,000 parents, doctors and social workers turned out for the first National Conference on Cerebral Palsy. Research and slow, tedious treatment have proved that 75% of the cerebral palsied can be rehabilitated; many have above-normal intelligence...
...merger is pushed through, the world will see the spectacle of a schism . . . You can break our hearts and send us home." But when the ballots were counted, it was 757 for to 172 against. Dr. Fifield summoned his followers to a protest meeting at the Hotel Statler. His dire prediction: 500 to 1,000 churches will withdraw to form a separate group, and litigation will begin over use of the Congregational name...