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Commerce Secretary addresses American Retail Federation. Washington, D.C., May 22. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, right, pictured with Dr. David R. Craig, President of the American Retail Federation today at the Mayflower Hotel addressing members of the federation, Secretary Hopkins said that there must be no compromise with the underlying principles of the New Deal's social and economic reforms. At the same time, he told the businessmen that administration recognizes the necessity of fair business profits as an essential basis for increasing employment and private investment
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The Mayflower Hotel is a historic hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. The largest luxury hotel in the District of Columbia, the longest continuously operating hotel in the Washington D.C., it is known as the "Grande Dame of Washington", the "Hotel of Presidents", and as the city's "Second Best Address" (the White House is the first). The Mayflower Hotel was built by Allen E. Walker, Initially called the Hotel Walker, it was to have 11 stories, 1,100 rooms, and cost $6.2 million ($87,650,497 in 2016 dollars). It opened on February 18, 1925.
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1922
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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