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...telephoned each other. They decided to hire a suite of rooms at the Ritz-Carlton, near the Chrysler headquarters. And there for three days and nights they were alone. Waiters brought them food, awed attendants clean linen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler- ( Dodge) -Dillon | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington's adopted daughter. They employed for their villainous purposes thugs from London's underworld, and a beautiful Spanish matron whom they installed at the Ritz. But they had not reckoned with Martin's cool audacity, nor his marriageability, nor the girl he loved. And they had not reckoned with Oppenheim's suave agility in leading his knaves through smooth intricacies to their just desserts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suave Agility | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Will H. Hays, Movie Tsar, leased an apartment upon the highest sleeping floor, the 37th, of the 508-ft, 39-story-high Ritz Towers in Manhattan. His suite, containing only four rooms, spread itself over the entire floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...cars and 24 hotels, 41 restaurants, 54 lunchrooms along the Santa Fe route. The original Fred Harvey, now dead, father of Ford F., began business in 1876 in a shed of a depot at Topeka, Kan. His succulent chicken and his eye-easy waitresses quickly made him the Cesar Ritz of the Southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Train & Plane | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...last flashlight had done its part in filling the room with clouds of smoke. The three Bremen flyers, Baron von Huenefeld, Captain Koehl, and Major Fitzmaurice, fought their way through cheering Bostonians and tangled folds of the banners of massed American legionaries from the Colonial Room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel yesterday afternoon following the Hub's reception to the trio. The sole means of escape was by way of the hotel's rear kitchen elevator, where the besieged flyers, thinking themselves free from further annoyances, found a CRIMSON reporter who had slipped by the cordon of vigilant detectives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bremen Flyers Saved From Throngs of Legionaries by Rear Kitchen Elevator--Say Airplanes Will Outlast Zeppelins | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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