Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to improve the spiritual as well as the intellectual culture of college students, approximately 70 members of the faculties of New England colleges and universities will meet at the Wellesley Inn, at Wellesley, for a conference on religion today, tomorrow, and Sunday. The group is assembled to give attention to the question, "Has religion a function in modern life; if so, what?" The conference has been arranged by a committee of which Kirtley F. Mather is chairman...
...night last week at an inn some 20 miles from Washington, 80 women from the U. S. Children's Bureau picked at the last crumbs of a Maryland chicken & dumpling dinner. They had gathered to do honor to their chief. Grace ("G. A.") Abbott, who had resigned and was leaving Washington for good. Thirteen years ago, after an apprenticeship in Chicago's Hull House, Grace Abbott was picked by President Harding to succeed the late great Julia Lathrop as the second chief of the Children's Bureau. She hung a big, red-splotched...
...early-morning darkness on a lonely New Jersey road President George D. Strohmeyer of Child's Restaurants ("The Nation's Host") focused his eyes on a roadside sign: Maridell Inn. Restaurateur Strohmeyer and two companions made their way to the sign, yanked it down, drove on in high spirits. On a street corner in Spring Lake a patrolman found them few minutes later gazing happily at a bonfire blazing from the splinters of the sign. For their prank Funster Strohmeyer & friends divided a fine of $75 and $19.50 costs...
...four hotels into receivership, filed a personal petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court. Last week Architect-Manager Marshall of the Drake did likewise. Hotelman Byfield still had his beauteous second wife, four children, salaries as hotel manager under the receivership and as president of a solvent subsidiary, College Inn Food Products Co. Hotelman Marshall had his gay pink house on Lake Michigan, his ship-cabin tap room, a handsome table that sinks through the floor and a Ming bed that holds seven people comfortably...
Production of plain tomato juice began to soar even faster than cocktail production. In 1930 a record tomato juice pack (excluding cocktails) of 946,000 cases was sold out in eight months. Big canners like Libby, Heinz and Campbell had better equipment, distribution and financial backing than College Inn to sell juice to the masses. They can no cocktails and today four-fifths of the industry's production is unspiced juice. College Inn's product still is a quality drink, selling for 50% more than plain tomato juice. Output last year was 350,000 cases...