Word: waldorf
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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...
...Dusk. That was the background of the meeting of Byrnes, Molotov, Bevin and France's Couve de Murville amid the yellow chairs and croton plants in the apartment lent to the Ministers by the Waldorf's fastidious board chairman, Lucius M. Boomer...