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...Starlight Roof Garden of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan one night last week a cosmopolitan group of well-groomed gentlemen and their ladies sat down for a long and pleasant dinner. No ordinary meal was this. Eleven years ago to the very night Lucius Boomer played host to the same group in his old Waldorf-Astoria down on 34th Street. Now in his bigger & better Waldorf on Park Avenue Mr. Boomer was again entertaining the officers and executive committee of the International Hotel Alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hotels of the World | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hotels & Creditors | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fold Arms | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fold Arms | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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