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Died. Mrs. Harriet Converse Moody, famed restaurateur, relict of the late Poet-Playwright WilliamVaughn Moody; of bronchial asthma; in Chicago. While she was a young high school teacher, her culinary triumphs came to the attention of Harry Gordon Selfridge, then manager of Marshall Field & Co., who put her in charge of the store's restaurant. After her reputation spread, she founded her own catering firm, directed other restaurants. But as hostess in her own home Mrs. Moody was most famed. Even after her husband died in 1910, such writers as John Masefield, Rabindranath Tagore, Padraic Colum, James Stephens continued...
...Congressman, and Fred Bucholz, Washington's jolly restaurateur (Occidental Hotel). In Washington's formal society, he has little part. Impartial observers rate him thus: a pretty good" Congressman, personally popular with his colleagues, active in House affairs, attentive to his district's wants. Neither profound nor brilliant he performed national service by his hard-hitting advocacy of Reapportionment. Though he is now serving his sixth term. 1 old title of "baby" handicaps him in advancing toward real leadership...
...particular about securing experienced waiters, for example. On the surface it would seem that any man could wait table. Only last week, however, a call came from a boarding house manager for a fall, erect, neat man with a clear complexion and at least two years waiting experience. This restaurateur maintained that waiting is a highly skilled art which can be perfected only through long practice. He said that a new man invariably permits dirty
...While Restaurateur Emilio Scala...
...White House, to provide President Hoover with a neat, complete "out" from the Prohibition controversy. As "proof" of this fabulous theory, the theorists pointed to the speed with which Attorney General Mitchell sent the case to the Supreme Court. Henri Mouquin, 93, famed oldtime Manhattan wine merchant and restaurateur, was "electrified" by the decision, wired from his Virginia retreat to his sons to prepare to get back into business...