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Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria claims to be the world's tallest hotel (42 floors). Fortnight ago its operating company stalled off creditors by voluntarily petitioning the Federal Court for permission to reorganize under the Bankruptcy Act, listing current liabilities of $5,412,119, current assets of $551,567. To the New York Realty & Terminal Co., which owns its land and building, the Waldorf-Astoria owed $3,385,000 in back rent. Suave, dogmatic President Lucius Boomer immediately cut his own salary from $60,000 to $36,000. The salary of his famed maitre d'hotel Oscar Tschirky ("Oscar...
With his spectacles down to the tip of his nose and mischief in his eyes, Professor James Ewing of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital sat slouched at the Waldorf-Astoria's long banquet table one evening last week. He and 400 others were saluting the semicentennial of Memorial, first exclusive cancer hospital in the U S., second in the world.* At the speakers' table were, among others, President Dean Lewis of the American Medical Association; President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; Harry Pelham Robbins of Manhattan's Empire Trust Co., who presided; Lucius Nathan Littauer, glovemaking benefactor...
...paper maker and a paper broker gave a tea in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for Author Hervey Allen. Occasion: Sale of the 400,000th copy of his Anthony Adverse. Reason: 400,000 copies equal 952,000 Ib. of paper...
Last week AP had its annual meeting in the new Waldorf-Astoria, and out came the old hatchet. This time it was brandished over the question of news pictures. First to pick it up was Hearst's brainy general counsel, hawk-nosed John Francis Neylan of San Francisco...
...invariable custom the Associated Press meeting (see above) is followed by the convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. For four days the corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria were overrun by some 500 publishers, heaviest attendance on record. They transacted all real business behind closed doors, issued self-congratulatory hand-outs which most Manhattan dailies dutifully printed by the yard...