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...right. The White House switchboard was swamped with calls from angry ex-marines, their families and friends. At the Hotel Statler, the Marine Corps League happened to be holding a convention. The outraged feelings of the Marine veterans reached a steamy climax in a 20-minute speech delivered by Sheriff William Harris, of Chatham County, Ga., who referred to "that creature in the White House," and blamed as the source of the Marines' troubles the man who had tried to cut Marine strength to the bone -Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, that "incompetent damn fool...
Just to make sure that there was no lingering misunderstanding, he appeared next day, hat in hand, at the Statler. Warned in time's nick that the President was coming, League Commandant Clay Nixon, of Seattle, had ordered: "No wisecracks will be tolerated . . . You will behave like marines." The convention's official bugler, 70-year-old Herbert Baldwin, tried to blow Hail to the Chief, but his upper dentures slipped out, so he just blew Attention. ("It was all I could do under the circumstances...
...Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, he had always had to scratch hard. Art Douglas worked his way through Washington's Whitman College (1924), earned a law degree at Columbia University (1927). In a Manhattan law firm, he did so well that he caught the eye of the Statler Co., which hired him in 1937 as secretary-treasurer. Within two years he was executive vice president, became president...
...hotel "firsts" of Founder Ellsworth Statler, father of the modern U.S. hotel, Douglas added some firsts of his own, e.g., television sets in hotel rooms. He also boosted the income of the chain* by renting wasted ground-floor space to shops. Quiet and reserved, Douglas has none of the flamboyance of his chief rival, Conjad Hilton (TIME, Dec. 12). But last year Statler earned more money. It rang up a record gross of $49.2 million and a net of $4.1 million to Hilton's $42 million gross and $3.9 million net. (Hilton's Waldorf has since...
...Including: Hotels Statler in New York, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and Washington.;' Pittsburgh's William Penn...