Word: waldorfastoria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Reason: "I did not think it ethical to be director of the Metropolitan and at the same time be head of a real-estate company [Empire State Inc.] which was applying for a large loan from the Metropolitan Life with which to erect a building" [WaldorfAstoria building, Manhattan...
After he had retired from business he started to clean up "Delaware politics," and was appointed U. S. Senator in 1918. In the same year he went into the hotel business (WaldorfAstoria and McAlpin, New York, arid Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia). "One of the most democratic of men, liked by all who come in contact with...