Word: restaurateurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case was once called "one of the most shocking in Treasury history" by ex-Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. As the evidence of tax evasion piled up in Manhattan federal court against Henry Lustig, owner of Manhattan's glittering, high-priced Longchamps Restaurants, Inc., it was indeed shocking. Restaurateur Lustig, who came up from peddling vegetables on Manhattan's lower East Side, had missed few tax-dodging tricks...
...totalitarian order, Spain's old and decadent worlds of wealth and want are spinning ever farther apart. Life in Madrid is a pattern in extremes. The capital has Europe's most elegant and epicurean restaurants; among the best is the one operated by the famed German restaurateur Otto Horcher, who used to serve Nazi bigwigs in Berlin, Vienna and Paris. Store windows on the Gran Via display nylons, furs, silks, satins, perfumes...
...Balding, sharp-nosed Vincent Sardi, Manhattan restaurateur, donated the interest on his War Bonds as it accrued, made other cash gifts; his total was close...
...dark, dapper Henry Lustig, millionaire operator of the plushy, well-stocked, high-priced Longchamps chain (twelve restaurants in New York). Said the News: Treasury agents are investigating Lustig for alleged income-tax evasions of $5 million in the boom period of 1942-44. The Treasury suspected that Restaurateur Lustig had failed to report large, systematic with drawals of cash, $1,000 at a time, from his various tills. This cash, said the News, had been placed in safe-deposit boxes ($1,500,000 in one; $50,000 in another), "and conveniently forgotten in tax reports...
...avid public (and to her honest publisher, Mr. Greenstreet) that she is a Connecticut country housewife, mother and cook. When the publisher insists that she entertain him and War Hero Morgan over Christmas, she is forced to make a hasty collection of the source of her recipes (Restaurateur Sakall), a phony husband (Reginald Gardiner), his Connecticut house, a neighbor's baby...