Word: waldorf
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...That every Christmas Eve Colonel Green passed in Manhattan for 15 years, he meandered up Fifth Avenue from the old Waldorf-Astoria to Central Park, slipping a $5 gold piece to each policeman...
...according to a New York Post columnist, turned down by two other magazines, Mr. Beaton flurried about his Waldorf-Astoria studio in a flaming dressing gown, seemingly hard put to provide a reason for how it all came to pass. Nearest he could come was that two months ago he was "completely irritated with Hollywood" after seeing a number of pictures he did not like. It was then he drew the unfortunate sketches, and he said he thought he inserted the slur against Jews subconsciously. Further, Mr. Beaton explained ". . . Silly as it may sound, I had not been aware that...
Sitting in solemn convention in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria last week was the "Congress of American Industry," annual session of the National Association of Manufacturers. If the delegates, some 2,000 strong, were not all Business, at least they were a big slice of it, representatives of the employers of one-half of the country's industrial labor. However, meeting at a time when for the first time in five years the New Deal had been set back on its heels-by a new depression-they were in a new position. For the voice of Business, although...
Last week a somewhat showy light in the East appeared for U. S. artists who would like to do serious illustrations for good books. Foregathered for a grand dinner in the Jade Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria were 300 socialite members of an organization known as The Limited Editions Club, which, for annual dues of $120, has since 1929 been sending them twelve Fine Books a year. Also on hand were four well-known U. S. artists, cherubic John Steuart Curry, swarthy Thomas Benton, freckle-fisted Reginald Marsh and bright-nosed Henry Varnum Poor. To them the Limited...
Capacity attendance of nearly 2,000 was expected for the N. A. M. banquet which, at $8 per plate, will wind up the three-day Congress in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom. It will represent the greatest aggregation of white-tied wealth and power ever assembled under one roof. Scheduled to decorate the head tables along with such non-capitalists as Eddie Rickenbacker, Bishop Manning, Bruce Barton and Sinclair Lewis, are such household industrial names as Owen D. Young, Lammot du Pont, Packer Gustavus F. Swift, Soapman S. Bayard Colgate, Oilman William Stamps Parish, Camelman S. Clay...