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This week the President turned to graver matters. Everything was still lovely, but for that troublesome cloud shadow on the spring landscape-high prices and the danger of a recession. Speaking at the annual luncheon of the Associated Press in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel,* Harry Truman ringingly reiterated his familiar formula for avoiding depression: "Prices must be brought down...
...will sleep in the White House, be honor guest at a state dinner. He will address a joint session of Congress. In New York City, before swinging south for an inspection of TVA, he will get a ticker-tape reception, dine with government, financial and business bigwigs at the Waldorf-Astoria. But President Aléman, the first Mexican President to visit the U.S. capital, is headed for Washington and New York on more than white-tie business. His Government, only five months in office, wants U.S. money to help along a half-billion-dollar program to raise the standard...
Patiño rode out World War II just as easily-first in a six-room suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, later in the Plaza in Buenos Aires. It was in the Plaza this week that Simon Patino quietly died at 86. He will be buried-for the time being-in Buenos Aires. Later he may be carried to the homeland he had not seen for 23 years, to the blue marble mausoleum built for him on the harsh Andean uplands...
Several other stores in the Square, including J. August Clothes, the Coop, Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria, and the Waldorf Cafeteria announced price reductions in selected items, but indicated that no general slash had been made...
...Gaekwar of Baroda, gem-collecting Indian ruler of some 3,000,000 souls, arrived in Manhattan with wife & child for an American outing, promptly inquired about the availability of bodyguards (he was familiar with the Lindbergh case, he explained), made it safely to the Waldorf-Astoria under cover of four detectives...