Word: waldorf
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...Last week President Roosevelt was pleased to hear about a luncheon in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria at which President Bernard F. Gimbel of Gimbel Bros. department store announced the results of a merchandising survey of 40,000 women in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Eighty-three per cent of the women think the U. S. is on the way out of Depression; over 5% believe they will be better off after the Depression than in their most prosperous years, chiefly because society will benefit from the ''bitter lesson of greed." Over 92% think that society...
Elder J. P. Morgan partners ate their dinners elsewhere, but the firm sent young S. Parker Gilbert, whilom Agent General for Reparations, to a banquet at Manhattan's tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria last week for Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...just recovered. He makes her tie his shoes, hustle for his breakfast, breaks her spirit. Both her brother (kinetic Basil Sydney) and her manager who loves her (William Harrigan) have good reason to kill Vance. But the job is finally done very adroitly in a room at the Waldorf by a mysterious German- a part credited to Mr. Stengel of the Reinhardt companies...
...held the first Scavenger Hunt in London. Songwriter Cole Porter organized several in Paris. Last week energetic Elsa Maxwell, plump and practiced social impresario, introduced it to Manhattan as a new socialite sport. Occasion was a Hallowe'en charity party for the Maternity Center Association at the Waldorf-Astoria. From mid-evening until midnight 199 excited socialites scurried around the town trying to filch the assorted trophies demanded by Hunt Mistress Maxwell...
...address entitled "Young America" delivered last week before the New York Herald Tribune's third annual Women's Conference on Current Problems at the Waldorf-Astoria, indefatigable Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt touched on one of her newest enthusiasms. "I happened to read a book not long ago," said she, "a book which has some really interesting new suggestions. They are a little revolutionary. They may have to be adapted to the gradual thinking of big groups, but they are interesting. Now, as a matter of curiosity, I have talked of that book to different groups of people. Yesterday...