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...about their occasional broadcasts, Alda was proudly singing in a series of Puccini operas aired by American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. (TIME, Nov. 18. 1929). Last week Soprano Alda announced another enviable radio contract. With Meyer Davis' orchestra she will broadcast every Tuesday night this winter for the Waldorf-Astoria. And next week at a studio in the Waldorf-Astoria she will start taking pupils for opera, concert and for radio...
Collapse in the Waldorf, For three weeks Dutch, English, Russian and U. S. oilmen gathered almost daily in Room No. 2604 of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, seeking to reach an agreement by which markets could be kept steady, profitable. Last week the conference broke up without results. Secrecy hid all the conference's deliberations but reasons given for the breakdown by oilmen were numerous: 1) The Russians would make no agreement for more than three years, the defensive Englishmen and Americans sought a ten-year pact. 2) The Russians declined to limit exports to the 1931 level, refused...
While the Supreme Court was pondering the test case of Champlin Refining Co. v. Oklahoma's Corporation Commission, President Charles Edward Arnott of Socony-Vacuum Corp. was playing host to a party in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. It was not a big party. The members all sat around comfortably in Room No. 2604. But it was important. The guests represented the leading oil producers of the world, gathered to come to terms with Russia. Momentous was the fact that for the first time Royal Dutch-Shell was prepared to forget the seizure of its wells in the Caucasus...
Died. Alexandre Gastaud, 63, chef and director of kitchens of .the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; of heart disease; in Manhattan. From the ship's galley, to a Bordeaux Inn, to the great kitchen school of Escoffier in Monte Carlo's Grand Hotel, he rose to officiate at London's Savoy and Carlton Hotels, Paris' Ritz and for royalty. Best known Gastaud dish on the Waldorf menu: "The Black Pot," a highly seasoned bean stew...
Editor &; Publisher, chief trade organ for the Fourth Estate, prepared the way last week for the two most important Press gatherings of the year: the Associated Press convention in the tropical roof-garden of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and the following three-day sessions of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association 15 floors below in the grey & red Waldorf ballroom. Keynote was a message from Harry Chandler, A. N. P. A. president, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, unable to attend the conventions because of illness. Wrote Publisher Chandler...