Word: statler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours a day. All recruiting stations jammed....Governor Saltonstall and Mayor Tobin spoke at a mass preparedness meeting at Faneuil Hall-and when they finished were greeted by the report that enemy planes had been sighted 200 miles from the city....Bellboys on the roof of the Hotel Statler dumped buckets of paint over the arrow on its roof pointing to the airport. Workers at the Navy Yard were released from work. Autos were frozen in parking lots and immobilized on the streets, and children were excused from schools. The sound of an automobile backfiring, truck wheels rumbling, of ambulance...
Behind closed doors, in committee meetings, disputes sputtered all week. In the Statler's lobby and bar, there were several short but solid fist fights between C.I.O. brethren. Though Lewis stayed in Washington, Daughter Kathryn was at the convention. So was Brother A. D. ("Denny") Lewis. Surrounded by delegates of his construction-workers union, he sat glowering on his hunkers through the convention, ostentatiously keeping his seat whenever the rest of the delegates rose to applaud. When Brother Denny went abroad he was accompanied by a beefy bodyguard...
There were two conventions of union teachers in Detroit last week. In the Statler met 315 delegates of the American Federation of Teachers, A.F. of L. Across the street, in the Tuller Hotel, met 131 would-be delegates, representing three locals (in New York City and Philadelphia) recently expelled by Federation referendum on charges of Communist coloration (TIME, June...
With his usual humorous pessimism on the degeneracy of the human species, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology and author of several popular books, addressed the American College of Physicians last night at the Hotel Statler in Boston...
...Cooke made this announcement in the course of a speech at the Hotel Statler Tuesday night. His speech was a substitute for an address to be given by President James B. Conant, who did not return in time to appear at the meeting...