Word: hitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert Chaperau explained that he liked to bring in gifts for his friends. Acquaintances of Mr. Chaperau were called upon to explain that they accepted his gifts in good faith. Among the embarrassed donees were Comedians Jack Benny and Jack Pearl; Cinemactor Wallace Ford, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Twentieth Century-Fox Executive Joseph Moskowitz. Professing great "amusement" over it all last week, Albert Chaperau cracked...
...stopgap appropriation which had been used up by last week's end. While breadless breadlines lengthened and the city council met to think up some sort of new emergency solution to tide the city over through the month or so until funds appear. Mayor Harold Hitz Burton made what was apparently meant to be a reassuring statement: "Although there are no funds available, no one will starve...
...about $3,000,000,000. Last week's mobilisation started off with a luncheon in the Red Lacquer Room of Chicago's Palmer House for 457 such friends of the livestock and meat industry as Chairman William Bishop Warner of the National Association of Manufacturers, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Railroader John Jeremiah Pelley, Editor Glenn Frank, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Convening from all over the nation, the 457 spent 180 minutes eating sirloin beef roast and hearing how the I. A. M. P. was girding up its sirloins to battle against underconsumption...
...humble Hotel Lexington, Inc., Hitz is promoting the new Belmont Plaza to a fare-thee-well. First move was to install a slick new cabaret called the Glass Hat which cost over $200,000 and opened last October with Postmaster General James Farley among those present. Ralph Hitz, meanwhile, is in the process of spending $100,000 dolling up the lobby and coffee shop and will soon start redecorating the bedrooms. Last week he put up a new marquee which burns 12,000 watts per hour and virtually eclipses that of the Lexington...
Hotelmen tell another tale which reflects the hostility of the two managements. Last September the Partridge Club, an association of hotel supply men with membership limited to 75, decided to give a banquet for Charles Rochester. Ralph Hitz thereupon let it be known that his hotels would buy no food, liquor, or anything else from any supply man who attended. A majority of the supply men stood fast and 285 members and guests attended the dinner. Thereupon Ralph Hitz began to make good his threat, even taking his advertising out of Hotel Gazette because it mentioned the dinner...