Word: waldorf
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Three Federal officers in plain clothes one day last week shouldered their way into a luxurious suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. To the thin, tall, elderly man who stood inside, wearing a wrinkled pajama coat and a pair of trousers, they said curtly: "Dr. Rieth, you are under arrest...
...Kurt Heinrich Rieth, onetime German diplomat, undercover agent for Adolf Hitler, had been living at the Waldorf for two months. Federal agents, who called him the "No. 1 Nazi now in the U.S.," knew he was there. They were keeping their eye on him to see what he would do when last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune forced their hand, broke a page 1 story about Dr. Rieth's activities...
Yvette, popular song stress, who has just finished an engagement at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, will start off the musical side of the evening's entertainment, and the Jones Brothers' colored band will provide a jazz intermission later for those who like...
When cameramen stalked J. P. Morgan at an English-Speaking Union rally at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Banker Morgan, who loves England even more than he hates having his picture taken, barked jovially: "If you must photograph me, be sure it is with a charming lady." Photophobe Morgan then posed happily with Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt...
...lived in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. A small, dark, dapper man, with horn-rimmed glasses and big beak nose anchored by a full mustache, he might have passed as a Hollywood executive, a clothing manufacturer or a prosperous refugee. Few would have spotted him for what he really...