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...most clergymen who have been preaching pacifism and U. S. neutrality now favor all help to the Allies short of war. Typical are two Chicago churchmen: Methodist Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf and Dr. Louis Leopold Mann, influential rabbi of Sinai Temple. They believed stanchly in the Johnson Act. thought U. S. defense ample. But last week they strongly urged all credit to the Allies, all speed in building U. S. defense...
Last week, before the American News paper Publishers Association at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Bill Knudsen blew off a cloud of steam over the strained relations of big business and Government in the U. S., let go the biggest puff on the subject of big pay for industrialists. Excerpt...
This broadcast, the first ever shared by two heads of state, and the first in which Queen Wilhelmina had spoken to others than her subjects, was heard in Manhattan by some 1,000 people gathered at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria; elsewhere by smaller gatherings in perhaps 500 U. S. cities. To the Manhattan luncheon meeting went the British and Belgian Ambassadors to the U. S., the French Consul General, the Netherlands Minister, many a churchman. Chairman was that best-beloved of bumbling speakers, lank Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the Episcopal Church (who attributes his oratorical lack...
...appeared for the March of Dimes broadcast? It starts in three minutes." Sleepy Miss Lehmann sang Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes into the telephone, later learned that there was no Mr. Crawford at NBC. With the champagne and roses Mr. Crawford sent a note, written on Hotel Waldorf-Astoria stationery: "With these spirits won't you drink to me not only with thine eyes but with a spirit of forgiveness? Your gentle sweetness . . . has made me deeply ashamed." There was no Mr. Crawford at the Waldorf-Astoria either...
...wants to see tycoons, the place to look is at the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers. Last week the heavy cream of tycoonery floating on a Grade A selection of 2,500 substantial U. S. businessmen poured through the lobbies of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria between sessions of N. A. M.'s 44th three-day Congress of American Industry...