Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...many tales with which Witness Latore made Manhattan gasp: "I went back to the hotel and [Plain-clothesman John J.] Stiglin gave me something like $40 or $50 . . . because this girl was supposed to be high-priced. ... It was very hot that day and we went into this room, this girl and I, after paying for the room, and I wanted to take a shower. I came back to the room and I was talking to her when somebody knocked on the door and there was Stiglin. Stiglin says, 'What are you doing here?' I said, 'This...
...week in Fitchburg, Mass. He was Alvan Tracy Simonds, president since 1913 of Simonds Saw & Steel Co. For him Austin Co., Cleveland construction engineers, is building the first windowless factory, designed to increase the output of manpower 33 ⅓%. The structure, one story high, consists of only one large room covering about five acres in which executives may sit undisturbed while saws are machine-made all about them. Roof (the most expensive ever put in a factory-$175,000), walls, floor will be of noise-absorbing material. To eliminate the communication of vibration, all machinery will be insulated where...
...smoking room of the S.S. President Hayes, steaming westward across the warm Pacific last week a stocky, owlish man with horn-rimmed spectacles regaled his fellow male passengers with the sort of stories told in smoking-rooms. When one of the others would tell a "good one" which the stocky man by chance did not already know, the stocky man promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He and his wife .Annette were bound...
...room into which Mr. Mitchell was admitted was the Governor's Room. Soon the bankers began breaking up into little groups, wandering through the building, earnestly and gravely discussing what should be done if Bank of United States failed...
...Young paused to peer down at and converse with small, able Isidor Kresel, counsel for Bank of United States, also the busy new special investigator of New York's magistracy scandals. Shortly before 3 a. m. Lieutenant Governor Herbert H. Lehman came, was hurriedly ushered into the conference room by James Herbert Case, chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who, for the public good, had previously agreed to head the merger into which Bank of United States failed...