Word: waldorf
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...discussing the strike of hotel workers you say: "Norman Thomas said he would march for the Waldorf picketers but he did not." My promise was always conditional on my ability to rearrange certain other engagements. This I could not do, but I showed my sympathy with the strikers by speaking late that night at their mass meeting and by becoming chairman of a public committee in support of their cause as against an unjust code, chiseling under the codes, and refusal of the employers to permit them to organize and bargain collectively. I believe that picketing demonstrations have their uses...
...only cause I'm taking up is woman suffrage. I mean woman suffrage in a broader scope than is allowed by law. I mean whether they should be allowed to sip cocktails at the bar in the Marguery, at Pierre's, at the Park Lane and the Waldorf-Astoria...
...A.F.W.'s 15,000 (claimed) members could not cripple the Manhattan hotel business by itself, and the big A.F. of L. unions declined to join the strike. Socialist Norman Thomas said he would march with the Waldorf picketers, but he did not. Writer Fannie Hurst said she would be there too, but she was not. Only celebrities found in the scraggly, vociferous vortex which circled the Waldorf as the week closed were Inquisitor Samuel Seabury and Impostor Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson. Mr. Seabury was going inside for dinner. Mr. Gerguson was bound he alone knew...
...Providence, R. I. Bands were playing. It was July 4, 1878,* a birthday worthy of one who was to be famed as the greatest and most successful flag-waver in the U. S. show business. This week George M. Cohan is to wave a flag in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to introduce a song called "What a Man!" in honor of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday. The Manhattan celebration will be one of 5,000 throughout the land to raise funds for the President's Warm Springs Foundation for infantile paralytics...
...Evanston and Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman of Manhattan, both famed Methodists, to recant. Not to be shamed out of their support for this temple & trade hookup, however, were Episcopal Bishops George Craig Stewart (Chicago) and James Matthew Maxon (Tennessee); Methodist Bishops Francis John McConnell (New York) and Ernest Lynn Waldorf (Chicago...