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...White of Atlantic City went off for a vacation in California. Before leaving, he closed Atlantic City's publicity bureau, apparently still convinced, as he once remarked, that the sort of visitor it attracted was a "cheapskate." Last week, in the opinion of most Atlantic City concessionaires and hotelmen, Mayor White was right about the most recent group of visitors. These were some 3,000 earnest folk assembled for the annual convention of the Allied Social Science Associations...
...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...
Labor Society. Even less like a fighting machine was the convention out of session. A joy to Denver's hotelmen, the unionists ate expensively, drank extensively, took all the best rooms and confined their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union...
...when eight of the nine insurance failures in the U. S. that year were Illinois companies. Biggest of these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash of the Depression, was Illinois Life, which had $150,000,000 in policies outstanding when the siphoning of Chicago's Hotelmen Stevens finally broke it (TIME, Dec. 5, 1932). The resulting yells of dismay brought swift reform in Governor Horner's first term...
...usual procedure is for the husband to register with a hired corespondent at an English hotel, the staff of which are familiar with their jobs. When the wife brings the suit for divorce, hotelmen testify that the husband and the corespondent spent the night together in the same room and were registered on the blotter as man & wife. Needless to say, in such sordid circumstances any actual commission of adultery is usually omitted by the husband, whose mood is apt to be one of bitterness at a divorce system which many British jurists and prelates have denounced as "revolting...