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...years ago last week the new $40,000,000 Waldorf-Astoria, a pile of smooth towers rising 47 stories from Manhattan's Park Avenue, opened its urbane revolving doors just in time to let in the cold whiffs of Depression. Three years later the hotel owed $3,385,000 in back rent to the New York Realty & Terminal Co. and tall, plump President Lucius Boomer had to handle a strike of restaurant workers (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Last week two celebrations at the Waldorf gave evidence that after three more years its staff and management were at least happy...
...fishing tour of the West Coast, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped in Spokane, Wash. He sneered: "Why, you can get more fish within 75 miles of the Waldorf-Astoria* than you can out here...
...Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dancer Roberta Jonay (Jones), recently a fortnight guest at the White House (TIME, June 21), made her big time debut doing a Hungarian folk dance. Back at her ringside table she received the congratulations of her guests: Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose friendship she won after being introduced by her fiance. Earl Miller, onetime (1929-32) Albany bodyguard to the President, now personnel director of the New York State Department of Correction. The California Osteopathic Association attributed much of the success of dancers...
...with U. S. automobile men they were pointedly reminded that a car selling for $730 in the U. S. costs $1,194 in Japan, heard what benefits would follow for Japan were the present tariff lowered and more U. S. cars imported. At a publishers' luncheon in the Waldorf-Astoria somebody asked: "What would happen to a man like John L. Lewis in Japan?" Grinned Mr. Kadono: "I don't think he could talk his head off in Japan, but I think he would have...
Just before he sailed home on the Normandie last week, taciturn, tweedy Sir George Ernest Schuster, chairman of the board of Lipton, Ltd., received newshawks in his suite at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and imparted to them a bit of last-minute information. Last February, said Sir George, he had become president of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., when the stock of that U. S. company had been wholly acquired by his English corporation. Why his election had not been announced before he did not explain, observed vaguely: "There never has been a time when the strengthening of economic ties...