Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Editor Seymour, whose two papers overflow with columnists (e.g., Drew Pearson, Winchell, Walter Lippmann, Mrs. Roosevelt et al.), got down to cases on Pearson-"vindictive, vicious, a soapboxer. But I'd say that he's a good policeman and digger." Of Westbrook Pegler: "[He] is not in the same class [as Pearson]. Pegler is not performing a service now, though I suppose in the early days of his union muckraking...
...deadline came & went: 400,000 miners left their jobs and glumly dug in for a "tough Christmas." Playing his role up to the hilt, labor's great ham let almost eleven hours go by before he lumbered into the Hotel Roosevelt ballroom and grandiloquently announced his decision: the miners could work, but only three days a week. The 200 committeemen removed their cigars and said, "Amen." Then they packed their bags and went home...
Playwright-Author Robert E. Sherwood (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Roosevelt and Hopkins') was the only new member elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose membership is limited to 50. He filled the spot vacated by the death of Historian James Truslow Adams (Founding of New England, The Living Jefferson...
...turned it down. Said he: "I thought they were just taking advantage of a fellow from out West." (They weren't; Hilton now regretfully estimates the Ritz to be worth at least $2,500,000.) Instead, for $300,000, he bought control of the Roosevelt, which bustles with salesmen and is as different from the Town House as Coney Island is from Beverly Hills. The Roosevelt deal established Hilton in New York and got him the backing he wanted from such moneybags as Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium. With the help of Odium, Hilton paid...
...blue cardboard placards in Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt last week were signs announcing: "Profit sharing makes every worker a capitalist." The two-year-old Council of Profit Sharing Industries was holding its annual meeting, and it had plenty of figures to back up its slogan. Starting with 16 companies, the council has grown rapidly; it now represents 155 companies with gross sales of $3.5 billion a year. Last year the 240,000 employees in the companies received about $40 million in profits, or an addition of 5% to 117% to their regular wages...