Word: medinah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour in 1950; today they get $1.60. Virtually every club loses on its dining room. The club kitchen must always stand ready to serve food to a hundred or a handful. "And believe it or not," complains President G. Walter Ostrand of Chicago's big, choosy Medinah Club, "breakage of dishes and disappearance of silver costs us $5,000 to $10,000 a year...
...noisy meeting, attended by 2,500 shareholders in Chicago's ornate Medinah Temple last week, Sewell Lee Avery retained control of giant Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. The proxy showdown found the forces of Louis Wolfson claiming only 2,125,000 shares, against a management claim of 5,400,000. There was little doubt that when the final tally was announced May 13, Wolfson would have no more than three, and possibly only one of the nine seats on the Ward board...