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...Hotels Statler Co., second largest hotel chain in the U.S., mopped up behind its fast extending lines. From the Pennsylvania Railroad, for an undisclosed sum, it bought Manhattan's 2,200-room Hotel Pennsylvania, which Statler has managed since it was built...
...Republican & Responsible." But three hours later the news was official. Paul Hoffman, now nominated as the boss of ECA, called another press conference. It was a different Hoffman who confronted nearly 100 newsmen, photographers and newsreel men in the Statler Hotel's Congressional Room. His answers were prompt and candid. He was supposed to be a hard-boiled businessman, said a reporter. Would he be hard-boiled with Europe? "The money we put up for European recovery can only stimulate Europe's economy," he said. "It cannot create...
...Duke University; Richard Bissell, professor of economics at M.I.T.; Dr. Edward Mason, professor of economics at Harvard; Wayne Chatfield Taylor, onetime president of the Export-Import Bank. They said they would rally around. That was Wednesday morning. Bellboys were bringing so many telegrams to Hoffman's ninth floor Statler suite, costing Hoffman so many quarter tips, that he finally ordered all wires held at the desk until they could be brought up in bundles...
...Statler, the common denominator busily multiplied himself. Will Clayton arrived for lunch to give him much-needed advice on how to set up a Government bureau-in this case one of the most prodigious bureaus in history. Lawyer "Tex" Moore arrived. He and Hoffman sallied forth for a conference with John Steelman. They returned to the Statler. State Department officials arrived with sheafs of reports, requisitions, and advice on what phases of the interim program needed immediate action...
...National Gallery of Art to inspect the famed collection of German paintings (see ART). With Mrs. Truman and Margaret, he took in the premiere of a new movie, State of the Union, at Loew's Capitol. He went to the Gridiron Club's spring dinner at the Statler, where he made a speech and sat through a couple of hours of heavy-handed lampoonery...