Word: hotels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louisianans, sick at heart but fighting mad, opened Grand Jury investigations all over the place. Down went the powerful like tenpins. For years the wise have whispered. "They'll never get Weiss!" Last week panting newsboys shouted before New Orleans' great Roosevelt Hotel, "They've got Weiss! They've got Weiss!" Every citizen knew what they meant...
...Seymour Weiss, the bald, polite $15-a-week shoe salesman of 1924, the $25-a-week Roosevelt Hotel barbershop manager of 1925, has been immensely' wealthy and powerful since he polished up Huey Long's manners in 1927, taught him to play golf and enjoy himself in night clubs. Weiss became pressagent for the Roosevelt Hotel the same year, gave bounding Huey and his bodyguards a free suite of rooms for the publicity, has harvested ever since from that...
Montreal's baseball stadium last Sunday presented an unusual sight. Before an altar, built between centre field and second base, stood 105 brides in white gowns, white veils, 105 bridegrooms in blue suits. In St. James Basilica that morning they had received Holy Communion. In the Wind sor Hotel they ate breakfast, signed marriage registers. On the baseball field they heard a sermon by Most Rev. George's Gauthier, Archbishop-Coadjutor of Montreal. A dynamic, youngish priest whom they all knew, Father Henri Roy, celebrated a nuptial mass after 105 priests made the couples men and wives. Then...
...couples. The chosen ones he sent to lectures, both in mixed and segregated groups, on the medical, economic, social and ethical aspects of marriage. After the weddings, Father Roy hoped that many of the couples would postpone honeymooning for three months, rather than get acquainted in a hotel room. Average age of the men-all of them employed at around $25 a week-was 26, of the women, who were to give up their jobs if they were employed, 23. According to Jocism's rules, the weddings automatically ended their membership in the movement. But Father Roy got around...
This week 27 Journal employes joined the Herald. About 500 were out of jobs. Though up-&-coming Sam Newhouse will be the power behind the rejuvenated Herald, he was reluctant to have his coup known. Over most of the weekend he was locked up in a Syracuse Hotel room but the only word to be got from the room was: "Mr. Newhouse is not here...