Word: waldorf-astoria
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Russia, barricaded behind the veto, gleefully hurled embarrassing dead cats in a westerly direction. Because his name carried the best publicity value, Molotov worked overtime, pitching doubleheaders at Lake Success and the Big Four meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria...
Such a transformation depends more on the big nations than on the U.N. or its Secretary-General. Last week, finally stirring before the small nations' campaign against the "hateful privilege," the Big Five took the veto issue out of U.N.'s committee rooms to their Waldorf-Astoria Tower, in an attempt to reach agreement on curbing the veto...
...editors usually lunch together in the office library, but to celebrate Editor Wallace's arrival they went to a Waldorf-Astoria banquet room to hear his belligerent declaration of war: "I lay down the challenge of battle to the Republican Party utterly and completely...
...This Waldorf-Astoria lunch was a portent of the big-time buildup to come, a publicity campaign sketched out by high-priced public-relations expert Edward L. Bernays. But part of the publicity that followed wasn't in the Bernays blueprint. To reporters. Wallace pooh-poohed Senator Vandenberg's conversion to internationalism, credited it to young (37), able James Reston, national reporter of the New York Times. Next day Reston wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. Said...
...Four gathered at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria this week, the world was uncomfortably conscious that the advent of peace was still, 18 months after V-E day, 15 months after V-J day, not imminent. Could analogy support the hope that this peace was long-deferred because its issues were weightier and, therefore, less likely to be tossed aside...