Search Details

Word: waldorf-astoria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...transatlantic tourist trade originates. From England therefore, the Normandie brought Donor Hales, his capacious wife, the Duke, and sleek Gualtiero Fedrigoni, Italian Line manager in London. Delayed at the dock because he forgot to fill out a custom's declaration, Mr. & Mrs. Hales finally hustled off to the Waldorf-Astoria for the night. On the way, the perky little M. P. espied his Trophy glittering in the Italian Line window. Bubbled he: "Fancy that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tenure of Trophy | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Last year Minister Earle resigned his post to run for Governor of Pennsylvania. Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., rich Philadelphia socialite, contributed handsomely to his friend George Earle's campaign fund. One evening last week after a farewell dinner on the Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel "Tony" Biddle gratefully gripped Governor Earle's hand.* sailed off to be Minister to Norway (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: Athletic Christian | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

Bankster Neidecker's arrival in the U. S. last week was more harassing than his departure from France. Slipping quietly from his ship, he sought refuge in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, where he registered as "Peter" Neidecker. (His French friends always called him "Pete.") Reporters reaching him by telephone last week asked bluntly whether he was the missing Paris banker. "Why, absolutely not!" said he. Who was he, then? He was a brother. Reminded that he had only two brothers neither named Peter, he explained pleasantly: "Strange, strange-apparently there are others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Travelers' Traveler | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...members: "It would be impossible to plan a procedure that would more effectively scuttle the Associated Press than the proposals advanced by Mr. Neylan." The battle for proxies went on until last week, when it moved onto the floor of the incongruously elegant Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. His big frame draped over a front-row chair whence he could easily address barbed asides to President Noyes on the platform. Lawyer Neylan let a potent "lit tle fellow" open his attack for a five-point program. The little fellow was youthful J. Noel Macy, publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wirephoto War | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...Astor, so shy that he often swallows twice before answering a simple question, was sent by the League of Nations' cowardly Lytton Commission to investigate Northern Manchuria when they deemed it too dangerous to go themselves (TiME, May 30, 1932). Next year, stopping in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Astor remarked: "When my friends try to telephone me and ask for Waldorf Astor the operators say, 'Oh, yeah?' I suppose it is rather like calling up the Aquarium and asking for Mr. Fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

Previous | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | Next