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...Bombe Atomic." In a material sense, the dinner, or dinners (there were two: in the Presidential Room of the Statler Hotel and the ballroom of the Mayflower) were a success. Some 2,900 Democrats and their wives showed up and, at $100 a plate, cleared $200,000 for the Democratic campaign chest...
...hotels, Democrats tried hard to whip themselves into a festive spirit. There was terrapin soup, breast of capon, and plenty of champagne. (The Statler served a dessert called "bombe atomic.") At the Statler, preliminary speakers included Sam Rayburn, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in a fetching white dress, and Alben Barkley. At the Mayflower, there were Fannie Perkins in a beaded dress, The Bronx Boss Ed Flynn -who almost forgot to stand up during the playing of the Sidewalks of New York -and Jim Farley, who got the biggest hand of all when he said he was glad to be there...
...Floogie Bird." The President, who with wife & daughter appeared at both dinners, was at his best at the Statler. There he got off some impromptu remarks which were just what the audience wanted to hear. He said there would be a lot of talk between now and November, "very, very little of which will be the truth." If the voters know the truth, he added, they "will not turn the Government over to a bunch of reactionaries who are trying to take us back to 1896. Conditions are too grave in the world at the present time...
...What is Harold up to?" They got a partial answer. Stories began to leak out of Washington of a midnight meeting between Stassen and Taft. Before Stassen had made up his mind to enter the Ohio primary, Taft had paid a call at Stassen's Hotel Statler suite. Taft had warned Stassen not to enter the primary, warned that it would wreck party unity and Stassen's own political future. Stassen's answer was equally blunt: if he was going to get anywhere he had to show that he could confront a man as strong as Taft...
...they are unwieldy. The Blue Cross (which takes care of hospital bills) has 85 locally organized corporations in 47 states*; the newer Blue Shield (for doctors' bills) has 48 corporations in 29 states. Last week, at a joint Blue Cross-Blue Shield dinner in Washington's Hotel Statler, a merger was announced. A single administrator will take over the job of nationwide coordination...