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...evening last week, several hundred guests were dining beneath the serene gold and plum-colored Sert murals of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, secure in the knowledge that their slightest whims would be instantly accommodated by the precise and fluent machinery of the nation's best-known hotel. Fifteen minutes later something went wrong. The hors d'oeuvres ceased to arrive. Famed Oscar's dishes failed to appear. Wine bottles stopped popping. The Waldorf, that pillar of bourgeois good-living, had temporarily ceased to function. With a feeling akin to that felt in Moscow, March...
Next day urbane Lucius Boomer, president of the Waldorf, bought space in Manhattan papers to explain what had happened. Five hundred cooks, waiters and bus boys had, by order of the Amalga mated Food Workers union, "folded arms." According to Mr. Boomer, at 5 p. m. a delegation of A. F. W. representatives, Left Wingers not connected with the A. F. of L., had waited on him to protest the pending dismissal of one of their number for incompetence. Mr. Boomer, who got his start in the hotel business rolling barrels around the basement of a Manhattan Beach hostelry...
...week, $20 a week pay (NRA minimum: $7.50), free food, uniforms, laundry, recognition of the union. The offender, declared the union, was one of its organizers who had been discriminated against. While Mr. Boomer bought more newspaper space to invite his old employes back at the Waldorf's terms, 2,000 marchers had a field day in front of the hotel and Park Avenue rang with the "Internationale" and "Solidarity Forever...
Married. Doris Warner, 21, eldest daughter of Harry M. Warner of cinema's three Warner Bros.; and Mervyn Leroy, 33, Warner director (Little Caesar, Five Star Final, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang); elaborately, in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Father Warner's gift was a sound film of the wedding...
Busy as hornets last week was an organization known as the National Committee for the Birthday Ball for the President. From its headquarters in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria the committee announced that at least 5,000 U. S. communities would celebrate President Roosevelt's birthday on Jan. 30 and help to raise a permanent endowment fund for his favorite charity, the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. To Warm Springs went a most impressive birthday present -a vast crate containing a glittering pinnacle of frosted fruit cake, six feet high and weighing 344 Ib. It was the gift...