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...From then on the showdown was inevitable. In early 1954, as chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Joe joined battle with the Army over a none-too-bright McCarthy staffer named G. David Schine, of the millionaire Schine hotel family. Army Draftee Schine, Joe charged, was being used by the Army as a hostage to keep the McCarthy committee from finding out, among other things, why a brigadier general named Ralph Zwicker had permitted the honorable discharge of a Red-tinted Army dentist named Irving Peress. For 36 days televised hearings made Joe's nasal rhythms...
...million, 565-room Fontainebleau with its $200-a-day suites and two swimming pools which dates all the way back to 1954. Even the "old hotels" like the Casablanca (built in 1951) and the Sherry Frontenac (1948), and even the 30-year-old Roney Plaza of J. Myer Schine,* whose room prices are right up in the top $32-to-$42-a-day bracket, were packing them...
...Convicted last week of criminal contempt for violating a 1949 antitrust judgment requiring him to sell 39 of his more than 100 movie houses. A Buffalo District Court ruled that instead of a bona fide sale, Schine Enterprises "sold" the theaters to its affiliated companies...
...private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club fell on hard times. The Army Air Forces used it for a training center in World War II, and in postwar years it was owned and operated as a public hotel by Schine Hotels; Boca Raton's white-jacketed staff often outnumbered the paying guests...
Last week Boca Raton got a new lease on luxury. In the biggest deal in recent Florida history, Arthur Vining Davis, one of Alcoa's founders, paid out $22.5 million to J. Myer Schine for the hotel and 1,000 acres of land. Davis, who owns 1,336,824 shares (6.5%) of Alcoa common stock and ranks among the world's richest men (one estimate: well over $350 million), plans to revamp the club into a resort for millionaires, cut up the land into estates. Said Davis: "While Florida will always offer ideal home sites for the middle...