Word: busboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Hotels throughout Italy there was Alfredo Campione, their spade-bearded, up-from-busboy managing director. He it was who pulled that de luxe chain out of the hole after the War and he it was who managed to pay a 5% dividend last year when most of the world's hotels were lucky to pay taxes. Now 61, Hotelman Campione is one of the few holders of the order of the Cavaliére del Lavoro (Knight of Labor), awarded by the Crown to self-made Italians...
...Rockefeller Sr. Until last week there were only two known portraits of him that he had paid for. John Singer Sargent had done them both. Last week a third was added. The painter was one Michael Matsakas, 36, a Greek Chicagoan with curly black sideburns, who has been a busboy, wrestler and interior decorator in public; a poet, philosopher and painter in private. The price: a used pale blue necktie...
...soon as he was successful, he was to send for another brother. Youngest Brother Charles was picked and he arrived in 1907 at the age of 18. Bellhopping at the Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis, brought him enough money to send for Spyros who became a busboy at the old Planters Hotel. Soon they had enough money to fetch George. In 1912 they leased the Olympia Theatre in a cheap part of the city, made enough money to get Eldest Brother Demetrius. But the War held him back. Spyros then joined the aviation, Charles, the infantry, and George operated...