Sol Kerzner Kerzner was born in Troyeville, Johannesburg, the youngest of four children to Jewish Russian immigrants. His family started a hotel chain; after Kerzner graduated as a Chartered Accountant, he took over the running of the group and went on to create the most successful hotel group in South Africa, Sun International. He is now the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Kerzner International and his career spans more than 45 years in the resort industry. With his accountant diploma in hand,Sol Kerzner worked in Durban in a small hotel with 50 rooms, owned by his parents.At 29, he sold the hotel and bought a modest house on the beach in Umhlanga Rocks . Kerzner’s career in hospitality began in 1962 with the purchase of the Astra Hotel in Durban.
He built hotels, and then bought railroads to connect them to other hotels, improving and even founding cities as he moved down the east coast to Miami. When others would have stopped, he saw the possibilities of continuing to Key West and accepted the challenge. By connecting an isolated string of islands to the rest of the world, Henry Morrison Flagler made his dream and The Keys come true. Born in Hopewell, New York in 1830, he left school at age 14 and moved to Ohio to work (and live) with his half-brother at a general store. Being a natural salesman, he quickly advanced from his original salary of $5 a month, and by age 22, he was partners with his half-brother in a grain business and distillery (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004).
It wasn’t until he moved to the United States that he was introduced to basketball. Charles was born to a poor family in Leeds, Alabama. He and his two brothers were raised by his mother and grandmother. He grew up playing basketball with his brothers. Patrick had great success in his senior year of high school because he was already almost 7 feet tall.
While David was two years old, his father immigrated the family to Spanish Florida, and they were one of the first family to settle. His father of wealthy stature purchased over 50,000 acres in Jacksonville, Florida and became a well-known landowner (C. W. Yulee). His intentions were to build a “New Jerusalem” for Jewish settlers. He named the city of Yulee in Levy County after the family name. By the age of nine, his father sent him to attend a private school in Norfolk, Virginia, which was managed by an English clergyman and other wealthy Virginian scholars.
Case Brief Lindeman v. Commissioner, 60 T.C. 609 (1973) FACTS: Jack B. Lindeman and Katherine G. Lindeman are married couple and filed a joint return on their income tax. Jack has been employed as the general manager of Beach Club Hotel by Beach Hotel Corp. From 1959 through 1963, Jack and his families lived in a suite of four rooms in the Beach Club Hotel furnished without charge by his employer. Since 1964, they have moved to a house purchased by employer in lieu of suite in hotel. The house was near the hotel and Jack has to return to hotel frequently when there were management problems.
The story begins in the summer of 1993, not long after Brian Mulroney stepped down as a Prime Minister. He had bought a new home, and it was there that Karlheinz Schreiber claims Mulroney arranged for a government limousine to pick him up from his condominium and bring him over for a visit .The two men had known each other for years before that. Karlheinz Schreiber was a well known business man with a lot of connections inside and outside of Canada .They talked about business deals at Mulroney’s house and following that they met secretly at a hotel in Montreal in 1994 to exchange their first envelope which is presumed to contain the first installment of $100,000 . In an interview during ‘The Fifth Estate’, Karlheinz Schreiber stated that he exchanged three envelopes with Brain Mulroney on three different locations with the total amount of 300,000 dollars which Brian Mulroney denied in 1999 when asked about it by a news reporter . These claims of dealings between Schreiber and Mulroney raised a lot of suspicions which resulted in the 1995 RCMP investigation into Brian Mulroney, Karlheinz Schreiber and Frank
Company Background Marriott International, Inc. is a leading lodging company. It is a worldwide operator and franchisor of a range of value and luxury hotels and related lodging facilities. In 1927, a man named J. Willard Marriott and his wife Alice opened a root beer stand in Washington, D.C. Until his death in 1985, J. Willard never rested. He was either adding locations, perfecting procedures, or expanding into new enterprises. He was a true hands-on manager who thoroughly enjoyed visiting Marriott’s increasingly exotic locations, as well as spending time with the ever-growing ranks of associates who, in his mind, were the secret of his company’s success.
(Joie de vivre) The history of this company is: 1987 — The Phoenix Hotel as the Joie de Vivre first boutique hotel property. 1997 — Japantown’s Kabuki Springs & Spa, which is the largest day spa, which is their first spa and wellness property. (History) 1998 — Joie de Vivre moves to Marin County with the opening of the Mill Valley Inn. (History) 2000 — They decide to enter the Silicon Valley counties with three hotels, Hotel Avante in Mountain View, Wild Palms Hotel in Sunnyvale and Moorpark Hotel that is in San Jose. (History) 2003 — The company Yvette that is Hotel Matchmaker joins Joie de Vivre as an online lodging consultant.
Biography Harvey Milk was born on May 22, 1930 in Woodmere, New York. He came from a small middle class Jewish family. Milk was one of two boys born to William and Minerva Milk. A well-rounded, well-liked student, Milk played football and sang in the opera at Bay Shore high school. Like his brother, William, he also worked at the family department store, "Milks."
Women embraced disco as well, and the music eventually expanded to several other popular groups of the time. In what is considered a forerunner to disco style clubs, New York City DJ David Mancuso opened The Loft, a members-only private dance club set in his own home, in February 1970. Allmusic claims some have argued that Isaac Hayes and Barry White were playing what would be called disco music as early as 1971. According to the music guide, there is disagreement as to what the first disco song was. Claims have been made for Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa" (1972), Jerry Butler's "One Night Affair" (1972), the Hues Corporation's "Rock the Boat" (1973), George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" (1974),[6][20] and "Kung Fu Fighting" (1974) by Biddu and Carl Douglas.