Word: roney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along, eventually drifted to Havana where he met Eva at a party. She was a schoolgirl of 15. But Raul wanted her so much for a partner that he married her on the spot. A few months later they made their first big-time appearance at Miami's Roney-Plaza Hotel...
...vacationers' sufferings. Rhode Island waxed so wroth over the stranded-tourist situation that its State Senate passed a resolution condemning Florida for withholding gas for return, trips. (Rhode Island's Governor J. Howard McGrath canceled a hard-won reservation at Miami Beach's swank Roney Plaza...
Biggest deal so far this season came when J. Myer Schine acquired the swanky, 300-room Roney Plaza Hotel, 18 years old, from Papal Marquis George MacDonald. The price: $1,601,000. Terms: cash. The deal was interesting: when the famed Roney Plaza opened in 1926, J. Myer Schine was strictly nobody. In 1918 he opened his first movie theater modestly in Gloversville, N.Y. It was an old roller-skating rink which he converted with a borrowed $1,500. Last week Schine, now owner of a chain of some 150 theaters in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland, lolled...
Norman H. Pike '42, Donald MacK. Piteairn '43, Ralph H. Potter Jr. '43, John F. Prudden '42, James A. Rafferty '43, Frank W. Reed '44, Donald M. Reynolds '42, John E. Reynolds '44, Andrew E. Rice '43, Kay T. Rogers '42, William L. Roney Jr. '42, Charles C. Royer '43, Richard H. Russell '43, Carl B. Seligman '43, Robert B. Sheeks '44, Donald H. Shively '44, Frants Sporon-Fiedler '44, Thomas M. Stanton '44, Richard B. Stedman...
...casinos at Ben Marden's Colonial Inn, the Sunny Isles Club, the Royal Palm, gamblers crowded the roulette and dice tables. On the ocean side, Glamor Row flung its facade of stucco and neon at the sky and the sea: the new Lord Tarleton, the Versailles, the older Roney Plaza, many another hostelry where the cheaper rooms went...