which would have been paid had Moss been allowed to perform his contract. A board of union judges later ruled that the check, which had been held in escrow, should be paid to the orchestra leader, and it was.
EXPRESSES SATISFACTION
Moss claimed that between the conclusion of testimony and the verdict, Byoir approached him and said with some satisfaction, “I saw to it that no Jew led the orchestra at the Waldorf Astoria ball.”
The style show, with debutantes as models, has been held in December for two successive years. The style show, it is charged, is used to promote the Miami Biltmore Hotel in Florida, property of Henry L. Doherty, whom Byoir served as publicity man.
Byoir has handled publicity for the Machado regime, which for years kept news of Cuban governmental corruption and seething revolt out of the foreign press, for Doherty’s Florida real estate bubble, and now for German tourist and trade organizations.
It is understood that Byoir privately professes to be a “good Jew.”
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