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...Century of Progress means business for any one in Chicago it means business for hotelmen. Since the Fair opened last month demand for rooms has jumped 30% to 40%. Most of the pick up has been due to conventions, of which Chicago expects 1,000 before the Fair is over.* Bona fide Fairgoers have not turned up in large numbers as yet and hotels have been unable even to guess at what volume of business will develop through the summer. Rates in higher-priced hotels are generally down 25% to 35% from last year (and 1929). Low-priced hotels have...
...only in receivership but the centre of a major financial scandal. Built by James W. Stevens & family, it was largely financed by Stevens-controlled Illinois Life Insurance Co. which went to the wall as a result. And if there is any one thing beside the Depression that Chicago hotelmen can blame for their many, many woes, it was the building of this "biggest" hotel...
...oldest (106) and most famed of U. S. civic celebrations. New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival is for local socialites a formal, exclusive occasion; for merchants and hotelmen, a golden harvest; for visitors and the man-in-the-street one good long party. Last week's party began six days before Ash Wednesday. Through packed streets lumbered float after gaudy float bearing the cinematic tableaux of the Krewe of Momus. Red, green, yellow and purple flares dimmed street lights, sent choking fumes up toward windows from which thousands of heads leaned. At the Municipal Auditorium the parade halted, maskers...
...proportions. For days the cherry tree roots had stood in rotting slime. Their leaves browned, fell off. They were, apparently, dead. But now they had come alive again and were ready to draw multitudes of spring visitors to Washington to gaze in gabbling ecstasy. Great, among Washington's hotelmen and shopkeepers, was the name of Grant who fostered this renaissance...
...bill, passed by the Assembly, to rip the state wide open again for gamblers able to pay license fees of $1,000 per table. The same assembly and senate were caught napping-or so they said-in the small hours before adjournment, by a slick lobby of lawyers and hotelmen, who got a committee to change "six months" to "three months" in that phrase of the Nevada divorce statute which prescribes how long divorce-hunters must reside in Nevada. Irate legislators who snored through the reading of the new bill, which both houses passed within ten minutes, swore they thought...