Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humble Hotel Lexington, Inc., Hitz is promoting the new Belmont Plaza to a fare-thee-well. First move was to install a slick new cabaret called the Glass Hat which cost over $200,000 and opened last October with Postmaster General James Farley among those present. Ralph Hitz, meanwhile, is in the process of spending $100,000 dolling up the lobby and coffee shop and will soon start redecorating the bedrooms. Last week he put up a new marquee which burns 12,000 watts per hour and virtually eclipses that of the Lexington...
...last year he shipped off to breed in North Carolina. Since then he has been busy dredging canals and ditches so his muskrats can swim deep in winter and grub for roots underneath the ice, using the mud to build up the banks so there will be plenty of slick slopes for them to slide down in their leisure hours. Next week Mr. Gibbs will fly down to North Carolina to see how his muskrats are doing. Though he does not plan to do any trapping there till 1939, in five years he expects to be catching...
...Schulte's new Manhattan "specialty shops" are really an attempt to brighten up the old 5?-to-$1 idea. To avoid burning his fingers again, David Schulte is making the transition slowly, has imported Stanley Roth, slick merchandiser, from the Golden Rule Department Store in St. Paul, Minn., made him a vice president. Said Mr. Roth: "I think most persons will be surprised at the large number of things we can get into a relatively small store." Most persons who visited the sample Schulte store at Manhattan's 86th Street & Broadway were surprised. Mr. Roth had filled...
Indicted. Walter Edmund O'Hara, slick little boss of the Narragansett Racing Association whose track was recently closed after a political squabble (TIME, Nov. 1), and four cronies including Rhode Island's Democratic State Chairman: by a Federal Grand Jury on charges of having violated the Corrupt Practice Act. contributing almost $100,000 in twelve months "to committees and persons closely identified with political activities"; in Providence...
Ninteen twenty-six to 1929 were great years. The new era. There were land booms in Florida and stock booms in New York. Harvard graduates were all bond salesmen and customers' men. Harvard undergraduates were reccoon coats, no hats, and long slick hair. Their girls were flat-chested and had no hips...