Word: waldorf
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With her husband momentarily out of the picture, the long-legged, smiling dynamo that is Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was given his place in the nation's headlines. Two thousand eminent men and women gave her a banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Intended as a tribute to an able woman who had achieved a career in her own right, it had the effect of retorting to criticism of her behavior as First Lady-elect: too much spotlight, too little dignity...
...gladly break an umbrella over a constable's head if it would help her get a vote. In the U. S., Mrs. Belmont's fight for equal suffrage took place on many fronts. She badgered Congressmen. She wrote a propagandist operetta which was produced at the old Waldorf in 1916 with Marie Dressier in the cast. Just as she had nudged Mrs. Astor out of Manhattan's social leadership, so did she outstrip Carrie Chapman Catt in the militancy of her agitation for woman's suffrage. And just as she had built her palaces, she gave...
Last week, Dr. Buchman and his 59 Group workers were well started on a great U. S. push. It had begun with a meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a luncheon to the Press, a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. To anyone who recalled how that stalwart Presbyterian John Grier Hibben drove Buchmanism off the Princeton campus in disgrace for over-zealous proselytizing in 1926, the extraordinary eminence of the Waldorf meeting's sponsors would have been a surprise. On the reception committee were not only such conservative and ultra-socialite names as Mr. & Mrs. Frederic...
...months ago announcement by L.E. Waterman Co. (pens,ink) of an autograph-collecting contest for children under 16, loosed a horde of some 150,000 begging, demanding, wangling U.S. youngsters on the world's celebrities. Last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel five judges (one a forgery expert) chose from the more than 1,000,000 signatures submitted, awarded prizes. First prize of $1,000 went to Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch...
...needed. The rooms in the Phillips Brooks House which can be turned to the purpose of common rooms also need refurnishing, that they may be attractive and liveable. For a dining hall there is still Memorial Hall, never an Elysium, but perhaps more enticing than six days of the Waldorf. This solution is one suited to the several necessities of the present, and to the material at hand...