Word: wardman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solid week of conferences and reports was too much for the 63 governors of the World Bank and Monetary Fund. By the time their first annual meeting droned to an end in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, they were doodling, yawning and fanning themselves with the agenda...
...Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, General Aniline and Film Corp. George knew the men who ran the country. George was a fixer and a puller of wires. That was what George got paid for. Keeping a gruelling schedule, he seldom got home to his Wardman Park apartment and his pretty, pert wife...
...Washington chuckled over a story of one of Harry Truman's nights out-a stag poker party at the Wardman Park Hotel apartment of his chubby, story-telling Adviser George Allen. Somehow the secret of the visit slipped. By the time the President arrived, every man, woman and child in the hotel had been well alerted. A small army of Secret Service men added to the confusion. Said one observer: "A midafternoon parade down Pennsylvania Avenue could have been kept just as quiet...
George Allen, who moved to Washington in 1929 to reorganize hotel properties (including the swank Wardman Park), has been one of the most powerful men in the Truman Administration. An affable, self-deprecating man, he is part court jester, part speech writer, part handy man. On the side, he is also vice president in charge of public relations for the Home Insurance Co. and a director of 22 corporations, some of them controlled by smooth, smart financier Victor Emanuel. He said he would probably have to give up most of these private jobs...
Henry Wallace, who likes to walk to work from the Wardman Park Hotel, was using a long Government Cadillac last week - and entering his office by a side driveway of Washington's massive Commerce Building. Reason: there was a picket line at the front door. The National Maritime Union, which put it there, was picketing not Henry Wallace and his Commerce Department but their tenants, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land and his War Shipping Administration...