Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not be good taste to end the year without telling one Christmas story. Every clever magazine carries a holiday tale, even the "New Yorker." Here is ours; it points out how profoundly cordial is the sentiment of Christmas celebration...
...English. In 1915 he married and by 1927 he was making $12,000 as manager of Cincinnati's Hotel Gibson. Two years later, having jacked the Gibson's yearly net from $95,000 to $333,000, he was hired away to manage the vast Hotel New Yorker, opened in Manhattan ten weeks after the stock-market crash...
...Yorker had been partially financed by a $13,000,000 mortgage held by Manufacturers Trust Co. When this big bank surprisedly found itself making 6% on its investment under Hitz handling, it decided to give him control of other hotels it was stuck with in Depression. Created in 1932, therefore, was National Hotel Management Co., Inc. with Ralph Hitz as president. By 1937 N. H. M. was managing (not owning) eight hotels in seven cities* with a success that has made Ralph Hitz perhaps the most famed U. S. boniface. Last week, in connection with...
While a New Yorker's "thoity-thoid street" grates on certain sensitive ears, so does a Southerner's "Ah" for "I." So, let's call the whole thing off. . . . Let the New Englander retain his nasal twang; it adds flavor and color. Let us not have a Civil War about...
Same day the New Yorker appeared with the above ditty, Author Kent was reported arriving in Puerto Rico, where his Washington Post Office Building mural, embellished with an Eskimo message to Puerto Ricans ("Go ahead. Let us change chiefs''), made him a minor hero among Nationalists. At San Juan Mr. Kent offered to testify in the trial of eleven Nationalists charged with killing a policeman, warded off requests for a statement by declaring "If I made one, I'd make it in Eskimo," prepared to sail on to South America...