Word: wardman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remain up until 3 and 3:30 in the morning dancing at these clubs," deduced Senator Howell, "unless they are animated by something more than natural animal spirits." Moreover, the agents saw liquor, bought liquor, drank liquor. One of the agents was subsequently approached by the manager of the Wardman Park Hotel (affiliated with the Carlton Club), who protested that high Dry officials were his good friends, including Brig.-Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews, then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition...
Displeased at the Commission's order, at the company's formation, was many a news organ. Representatives of the Gannett chainpapers attended the organization meetings at Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, later declined to participate. "Such a company will not give the service we want," said one of them. Moved to court action was the Hearst-owned Universal Service Wireless, Inc., organized last year following the Commission's first allocation order. Last week it filed notice of appeal in Washington's Court of Appeals asking that the Commission be enjoined from allocating the wavelengths to the new corporation, that...
...phrase was first applied by the late Ervin Wardman, then publisher of the New York Herald...
...champagne bottles popped, even after Prohibition, at the Shoreham. . . . Last week it was announced that rough workmen would attack the Shoreham's ugly but distinguished copings, pull it down to make way for an office building. Washington's proudest hotels these days are the New Willard, the Wardman Park...
...Harry Micajah Daugherty, then Attorney General, had gone to visit President Harding at the White House. In his apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel, his private secretary heard a shot and a crash. Jesse Smith, a diabetes sufferer, Mr. Daugherty's man Friday, who had a desk but no official position in the Department of Justice, was found dead in the next room. A pistol lay on the floor beside him. He was pronounced a suicide. He had enjoyed life; why had he left it? Washington people said that ill health and imminent scandal had burdened his mind...