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...peak of the market his paper profits were more than $100,000,000 but Doc Crawford continued to lunch at a Horn & Hardart Automat...
...evening last December Channing H. Tobias, Negro clergyman, walked into a Horn & Hardart automat in Manhattan. It was during the hours when the restaurant offers table service. But the waitresses snubbed him, neglected to take his order. He called for the hostess. She promised to bring the manager. When he did not appear. Clergyman Tobias, thoroughly angered, summoned a policeman off the street, made him produce the manager. After an hour's wrangling Channing Tobias, no ordinary clergyman but senior secretary of the Y. M. C. A.'s colored work, stormed out in disgust, sued Horn & Hardart...
Last week the case was tried by Municipal Court Justice Samuel Ecker and an all-white jury. Counsel for Horn & Hardart was Nicholas Pecora. brother of Investigator Ferdinand Pecora. His argument was that the automat had been shorthanded, and that even a Horn & Hardart executive had had to wait one hour before being served that night. Unimpressed, the jury awarded a verdict to Negro Tobias. Judge Ecker ordered Horn & Hardart...
...sandwich, eaten the first half of it with impunity. As she began to chew the second half, she felt something in her mouth that seemed to be moving, independent of the action of her teeth and tongue. She screamed, spat vehemently, alarming many nearby customers of the Horn & Hardart Co. When the object she ejected passed her lips it bit her, causing her lip to bleed. A curious insect -or reptile -about a quarter of an inch long, badly mangled by Miss Puree's teeth, lay upon the floor. Miss Puree declared that it was a lizard; the manager...
...They were wrong, however. The Horn & Hardart Co. seldom advertise...