Word: brevoort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Fellows meet for 50? lunches at the Brevoort Hotel on Tuesdays, listen to speeches on "How I Came to Jesus," enjoy a half-hour of "Christian fellowship." Most of the Fellows are white-collar workers, with a scattering of executives like Board Chairman James Lewis Kraft of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., Vice President Frank Flagg Taylor of Continental Illinois Bank. Still spark plug of the club is Cartoonist Shoemaker, who contributes drawings to the club paper, lately packed a Tuesday meeting by demonstrating the "Shoescope," a $1,500 contraption which projects his cartoons, as he draws them, upon...
Eight years ago a boy named Brevoort Hood was expelled by Tabor Academy for smoking within the town limits of Marion, Mass. His father, Charles C. Hood of Ridgewood, N. J. not only denied that Brevoort had smoked but, having paid $1,200 for his son's tuition that year, he felt that since the boy was sent home in March he should get some money back. Tabor Academy explained that Father Hood had agreed to forfeit whatever money he had paid Tabor in the event his son should for any reason "sever his connection" with the school before...
...last week's two gatherings in his Pro-Cathedral accomplished nothing else they brought baldish, hawk-nosed George Craig Stewart once more to the attention of his Church. This churchman was once a bellboy in Chicago's Brevoort Hotel, whither he had fled from the home of a Scottish Presbyterian aunt in Ontario. Before that he had lived with his Scottish father, a grocer of Saginaw, Mich. In Chicago young Stewart worked in a mission, gained a scholarship in the Moody Bible Institute, earned his way through Northwestern University by preaching in a Methodist church. A final religious...
...A.F.W. meantime tried to cripple every hotel in town with its "fold arms" order. Chefs and waiters at the New Weston, Lombardy, Brevoort, Essex House and Montclair walked out. At the Astor and Park Central, guests had to go out into the kitchens and serve themselves...
Among the patrons and patronesses of this forty-fourth production of the club are the following: Mrs. G. R. Agassiz, Mrs. Thomas Allen, Mrs. John Bartol, Mrs. P. deM. Barby, Mr. and Mrs. J. deH. Bell, Mrs. M. T. Brevoort, Mrs. G. S. Burgess, Professor and Mrs. J. L. Coolidge...