Word: restaurateurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Branch, L. I. seeking permission for a reorganization under the new bankruptcy law. A Manhattan newspaper promptly headlined the item: EGGS (INC.) BUSTED. A quality poultry farm handling as many as 100,000 chickens, 1,000,000 eggs a year. Eggs, Inc. sold pheasants to New York's famed restaurateur, Henri Charpentier, who insisted that they be killed on the wing. It gave them a special flavor to be shot down while tense, said he. President Edwin J. Walker of Eggs, Inc. took live birds to nearby hunt clubs, induced sportsmen to shoot them down for him. He declared last...
Died. Henry Mouquin, 97, famed Manhattan restaurateur and wine merchant; of old age; at his Williamsburg, Va. estate which he bought in 1871, and to which he retired in disgust at the advent of Prohibition. Born near Lausanne to a family of Swiss hotelkeepers. he used to say that his father fed him a spoonful of wine before he was allowed to suckle. Next to Prohibition, he detested the machine age, refused to use a telephone or ride in an automobile. His favorite vehicle was a coach, originally built for President James Monroe, which he bought in 1870. Sometimes...
...popular inanity by last week that an "Elmer Calling Contest" was held at the Chicago Fair; and nerve-frazzled New Yorkers wrote letters to newspapers about the "malignant growth," the "contagious stupidity" of the greeting. Colyumist Walter Winchell printed a story that "Elmer" was a 300-lb. Brooklyn restaurateur named Elmann Neilsen, good and generous friend of Legionaries who would loudly page him wherever they went. Shrewdly Elmann Neilsen capitalized his fame last week by hanging a sign in his restaurant window: "Here's Elmer." Double-checked Elmer facts are: A division of the "40-&-8" Legion parade...
Week before, Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson had "cracked down" on a Gary, Ind. roadhouse proprietor, a market owner and beautician of New Rochelle, N. Y., a Lowell, Mass, restaurateur and a Chelsea, Mass, dry cleaner. For violating wage and working time agreements, they were ordered to surrender their NRA insignia to their local postmasters. Under the President's order, General Johnson was now empowered to jail and fine such offenders, to "prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to . . . carry out the purposes and intent . . . of this order." General Johnson's first prescription emphasized that...
Married. Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig, 30, "iron man" first baseman of the New York Yankees, holder of the major league record for consecutive games played (TIME. Aug. 28); and Eleanor Grace Twitchell, 27, University of Wisconsin graduate, daughter of a retired Chicago restaurateur; in New Rochelle...