Word: wardman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator at Home. Now that Senator Vandenberg has become a world figure, the Vandenbergs' social life in Washington has changed radically. They are rarely in their two-room apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel. Even in the reduced social season, invitations have come to them by the tens and twenties, and they have duly made the rounds of the embassies and the teas...
...appreciate your work." Few hours earlier, in a suite at the Wardman Park Hotel, tall, greying Ambassador Alberto Tarchiani had made his bow to the U.S. Just 55 hours out of Rome, via a U.S. Army transport, he had called in the U.S. press even before inspecting his embassy. "I am an old journalist myself," he said to the 21 newsmen. "I appreciate your work very much...
...Visionary. Next day it was Henry Wallace's turn. Having walked the three miles from his Wardman Park apartment hatless in a raw wind, he arrived pink-cheeked and just nine minutes late. He, too, got a cheer from the crowd-his friends, this time. He, too, got quickly to what he believed to be the point...
Henry Wallace had not wanted to go to Chicago. He was tired and jittery after his trip home from China. His stomach was upset: he had politely munched too many Chinese radishes. For several days he avoided friends and politics by simply locking the door of his Wardman Park apartment...
...friend, unused to bitterness in Henry, by remarking that he was beginning to think that Harold Ickes was getting a little old to go on as a Cabinet member. Toward the end of the week his temper flared in an unscheduled exhibition of his jujitsu skill. In the Wardman Park Hotel lobby he refused to give Cameraman Robert Woodsum permission to take his picture, then turned and ran. Woodsum chased the Vice President. Wallace whirled around, hoisted the 180-lb. cameraman in a spread-eagle above his shoulders, then pinned him to the floor. But after he had cooled...