Word: boomer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Court for permission to reorganize under the Bankruptcy Act, listing current liabilities of $5,412,119, current assets of $551,567. To the New York Realty & Terminal Co., which owns its land and building, the Waldorf-Astoria owed $3,385,000 in back rent. Suave, dogmatic President Lucius Boomer immediately cut his own salary from $60,000 to $36,000. The salary of his famed maitre d'hotel Oscar Tschirky ("Oscar of the Waldorf") was reduced from...
Next day urbane Lucius Boomer, president of the Waldorf, bought space in Manhattan papers to explain what had happened. Five hundred cooks, waiters and bus boys had, by order of the Amalga mated Food Workers union, "folded arms." According to Mr. Boomer, at 5 p. m. a delegation of A. F. W. representatives, Left Wingers not connected with the A. F. of L., had waited on him to protest the pending dismissal of one of their number for incompetence. Mr. Boomer, who got his start in the hotel business rolling barrels around the basement of a Manhattan Beach hostelry...
This the union denied. A.F.W. said it was striking for a 40-hr. week, $20 a week pay (NRA minimum: $7.50), free food, uniforms, laundry, recognition of the union. The offender, declared the union, was one of its organizers who had been discriminated against. While Mr. Boomer bought more newspaper space to invite his old employes back at the Waldorf's terms, 2,000 marchers had a field day in front of the hotel and Park Avenue rang with the "Internationale" and "Solidarity Forever...
Died, Wilson Mizner, 56, Klondike prospector, playwright, wit, manager of Boxer Stanley Ketchel, gambler, Florida land boomer (with his Architect Brother Addison), scenario writer; of a heart attack after six months' illness; in Los Angeles. To each of two nieces he willed $1 in cash, left the rest of his estate to "my friend, Florence Atkinson of Los Angeles," onetime cinemactress...
...broad-shouldered, partly bald, he first came into national view as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1919-20). Since then he has made unsuccessful attempts to get into the House and Senate from a dominantly Republican State. He was an early and ardent Roosevelt boomer. A good lawyer if not a great one, he will become Governor General of the Philippines as soon as President Roosevelt finds some one nearer the Walsh calibre...