Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such resigned generalities as these filled the air in Philadelphia's elegant Bellevue-Stratford Hotel last week as 1,000 restaurateurs gathered for the annual convention of the International Stewards & Caterers Association. The delegates listened appreciatively when a representative of Tested Selling, Inc. hissed: ''Don't...
Including both steward dietitians like Mr. Heaman, feeders of groups (undergraduates, the employes of big corporations, etc.), and the traditionalists of the industry, old-line French, German and Alsatian "kitchen men," Association members buy upwards of $500,000,000 worth of food every year. Since Repeal they have handled nearly...
More serious matters were broached on the convention floor. Menus, it was declared, are becoming larger, less cluttered with items, often illustrated, because "what the eye sees the mind may want." Deploring "leakage at the bar," Restaurant Accountant James E. McNamara observed that '"in the first place it is...
Ten years ago, when the president of a Washington, D. C. veterinary college sadly passed out diplomas to the four members of his graduating class and announced that the college, founded 35 years before, was thenceforth discontinued, it appeared that few men cared to become horse doctors (TIME, June 27...
There are 10,000 practicing veterinarians in the U. S. now, more than ever before. Half of them belong to the A. V. M. A. and a quarter of them were in Omaha for the convention. There are now ten veterinary colleges in the U. S. and two in Canada...