Word: waldorfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While in Manhattan, J. Krishnamurti stayed at the Waldorf. After addressing a number of Theosophical gatherings he left, with his lecture manager, for Chicago, to grace a convention of the American Theosophical Society...
...Baltimore & Ohio R. R. will move out of the Pennsylvania Terminal in Manhattan. Already a sweeping advertising campaign is telling travelers about a fleet of "Ritzy" parlor busses with special baggage compartments which will scurry from Pershing Square and the Waldorf Hotel to the B. & O. Terminal in Jersey City...
Publishers. The biggest, the central town criers' gathering, was that of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. They met in the big Waldorf ballroom and reporters stood at the door jotting down, together with the great names of U. S. newspaperdom, other publishing names variously distinguished: J. W. Green of the Buffalo Express, who claimed he had attended more A. N. P. A. conventions than any other man alive (the reporter failed to note the record number); Zell Hart Deming of the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle, "only publisher in the U. S. who does her own fruitcanning"; the ample Frank Rostock...
...years ago these Independents had their first show. Having survived the cannonade of laughter that welcomed them, they proceeded, under the chaperonage of John Sloan, to exhibit year after year a freakish rout of paintings wilder than any parade of camels and elephants. The entire roof of the Waldorf is theirs to use; anyone who has painted anything can exhibit it there, and painters as remote from convention as sword-swallower, snake charmer, bearded ladies, send in their works-and are laughed at. And many of those who roused the stormiest guffaws ten years ago are now selling their canvases...
...Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan hotel, one Pierre Dehsdin, French champagne salesman, issued a public rebuke to U. S. bootleggers: "I have reason to suspect that a good deal of imitation champagne is sold in this country under forged trademarks; and I think that something should be done to stop this imposition, which is unfair to the French manufacturer...