Word: waldorfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a Congressional Committee went to Manhattan, set itself up in the Waldorf Hotel and began to take testimony on the air service needs of the U. S. The inquiry was extended to include civilian connections of the aeronautics industry and it brought on to the stand a widely varied, colorful cast of characters from the industry...
Because it was feared that some impetuous Bolshevik might attempt her life, the authorities sent a bevy of policemen and detectives to meet her. On the journey from the wharf to the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, where the Grand Duchess was staying, another bevy of motor-cycle bobbies clattered noisily in front, beside and behind her. Two detectives of the Bomb Squad were detailed to guard Her Imperial Highness throughout her U.S. visit...
...Cathedral, Manhattan, formally opened the 42nd Annual Convention of the Knights of Columbus. Bishop William Turner of Buffalo keynoted with a sermon on that popular subject, Atnericanism?aiming veiled thrusts at the K. K. K. The 356 delegates arose from their knees, paraded down Fifth Ave. to the Waldorf-Astoria...
...Leviathan (United States)? Maitre d'Hotel Oscar of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (Manhattan), highest paid hotel executive in the world ($50,000 per annum), inventor of Oscar Sauce; with his wife for a three-months' tour in Europe?his first vacation after 41 years of uninterrupted work in the U. S.; David Warfield; William J. Burns; 52 Boy Scouts; "Pussyfoot" Johnson to convince the Moslems, the Indians and the Ceylonese that drinking Scotch whiskey is wrong...
Changes within the U. S. are: Edwin Holt Hughes to Chicago. William E. Anderson to Boston. Adna W. Leonard to Buffalo. Wilbur Thirkield to Chattanooga, Tenn. Theodore Henderson to Cincinnati. Matthew W. Clair to Covington, Ky. Ernest L. Waldorf to Kansas City. Frederick T. Keeney to Omaha. Charles E. Locke to St. Paul. H. Lester Smith to Helena, Mont. Thomas Nicholson to Detroit. Charles W. Burns to San Francisco...