Word: waldorf
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...priced pressagent in the land, the suave representative (at one time or another) of Schwab, Chrysler, the Armours, Harvard University, Princeton, Thompson-Starrett Co., Portland Cement, the Guggenheims, the Red Cross, the Republic of Poland, New York's Interborough subway, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Waldorf-Astoria and-longest and most notably-the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Rockefellers...
...staff, devoting most of his time to Pennsylvania Railroad and Chrysler, but he became a private relations counsel between his temperamental chief and the rest of the staff. When Mr. Lee would abruptly summon his staff to meet him in his uptown suite in the old Waldorf, demand to know why a certain letter had not been sent out as directed, then brokenly announce: "I'm through. I simply can't go on. You fellows divide up the accounts!" -it was Tommy Ross who quietly herded the office force back to work...
...companies, he cultivates friends assiduously, is said to keep a card index file of every person he meets. In his luxurious Manhattan apartment he collects elephants of ivory, ebony, stone and metal, owns 2,200. He once had two live elephants carried to the roof of the old Waldorf-Astoria to entertain his guests...
...Help Wanted" signs were hung out by Philadelphia brewers swamped with job-seekers. Press pictures appeared of huge crowds lined up for work before the Anheuser-Busch plant in St. Louis. ¶In Manhattan the fashionable Waldorf-Astoria began to fix up a "tavern" for beer-drinkers. The Fifth Avenue Hotel planned to convert a restaurant into an imitation sidewalk café and call it the Roosevelt Room. In Milwaukee where factory whistles and fire-engine sirens welcomed the return of beer the famed old Blatz Hotel revived its palm garden for German beer drinkers. ¶Moaned Anti-Saloon League...
Early one frosty morning in Manhattan, a sturdy gentleman greyed at the temples descended from his suite on the 33rd floor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a constitutional up Fifth Avenue to Central Park and back with a companion. A few people nodded to him. He smiled out of his turned-up collar. On Fifth Avenue someone leaned over a bus rail, shouted: "Howdy, Hoover! How're you doing...