Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the Depression. The man who put spiced tomato juice cocktail on the market was Ernest Byfield, Chicago's most famed hotelkeeper. From his father the late Joseph Byfield he inherited the Hotel Sherman Co. (Ambassador East, Ambassador West, the Sherman, the Fort Dearborn) and its subsidiary, College Inn Food Products Co., which the elder Byfield had started to can foods prepared by restaurant chefs. In 1927 while visiting John ("Yellow Cab") Hertz in Miami, Ernest Byfield liked the taste of a glass of tomato juice he was given. He immediately put his chefs at the Hotel Sherman...
Flames leaped from pen to pen, scorched cattle, sheep and hogs, threatened the huge packing plants of Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., sprang at the big Livestock Exchange. Up went the Dexter Pavilion, scene of many a great livestock exposition. Up went the old Stockyards Inn, where generations of packing tycoons had dined and done their deals. Up went the Saddle and Sirloin Club, the Department of Agriculture Building, two banks and a radio station. Up went an elevated station. Aviators over South Bend, Ind. 95 mi. away, could see the tall pillar of smoke...
...came to the U. S., a violinist from the Cologne Orchestra in Germany, his first boss had been Chicago's Theodore Thomas, pioneer among U. S. orchestra-builders. After morning rehearsals, Conductor Thomas and young Frederick Stock went often to Zum Rothen Stern (now the Red Star Inn) on Chicago's North Clark Street. There, over many a bottle of wine, Conductor Thomas told his protege how he had left New York for the Midwest, how he had found new audiences fresh and stimulating. In 1905 Frederick Stock succeeded Thomas as conductor of the Chicago Symphony. But before...
...Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Nellie Coffman runs the expensive Desert Inn to which tired film actors and actresses often go for a quick rest. Mrs. Coffman found that riding horses was not so popular with her famed guests. Riding requires a warm and weighty costume, and many a Californian finds clothes a nuisance. So Mrs. Coffman sold some of her horses, put bicycles in the empty stalls. Film stars soon began to wheel madly around & around Palm Springs. Bicycling became a raging West Coast fad, spread rapidly to the East. Thus was born last year's bicycle boom which...
...ardent Republican and oldtime Sinn Fciner, he was nominated for the governor generalship by his good friend Eamon de Valera in the sneaking hope that Britain would make an issue of the matter by objecting. Britain did not. Once the proprietor of a grocery store, bicycle shop and inn, Donal Buckley was interned in Britain during the War after fighting bravely in the defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live in the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park, will wear no English clothes...