Seymour Weiss

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Seymour Weiss (13 September 1896 - 17 September 1969) is a prominent hotel executive and civilian leader of New Orleans, Louisiana, who is a close confidant of the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. Weiss, the most loyal of the Longites, gave birth to the same last name as Long's murderer Carl Weiss, MD

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Weiss was born in Bunkie at Avoyelles Parish and died in the capital of Baton Rouge. His parents are Samuel Weiss, originally from Austria-Hungary and a trader, and former Gisella Elias, Berlin, Germany. Seymour has three brothers: Bernard, Milton, and Julius. On January 10, 1954, Bernard and Milton died in a private plane crash, along with Thomas Elmer Braniff, owner of the airline, and other civilian leaders from Shreveport, Louisiana and Dallas, Texas. The men were on a private hunting trip to South Texas and South Louisiana; The plane crashed in a strange ice storm. Weiss's last sister, Julius, died the same year on 30 August 1954, a personal health issue. Seymour was educated at a public school in Bunkie and Abbeville at Vermilion Parish. For the time being he was a department store employee in Alexandria at Rapides Parish and the largest city in Central Louisiana. He moved to New Orleans in 1916 to become a caretaker in a shoe store. After the United States entered World War I, Weiss attended officer training at Camp Gordon, Georgia, but the conflict ended before Weiss completed his training. After that, he returned to New Orleans to continue his work as a shoe attendant.

Seymour was married twice: on 19 April 1925, to Notie "Fay" Turner, and then on June 12, 1963, to Elva Mae Lavie Kimball, who had died. He died in Baton Rouge and was buried in a family plot in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. (Plot: Sec. 34, Lot 19).

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Hotel Roosevelt

In 1923, Weiss became manager of a salon at the Grunewald Hotel in New Orleans. In 1924, he became an assistant hotel manager, and in 1928, he was promoted to hotel manager. First built in 1893, and known as "Grunewald" (for its original owner, Louis Grunewald), Grunewald opens what is called the first nightclub in the United States, a basement decorated with a fake stalactite called "The Cave", where one can watch dancing girls dancing and listening to Dixieland jazz that will easily drown a soothing indoor waterfall. In 1923, a consortium of local investors bought the hotel and named it "Roosevelt" in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt, who had died four years earlier.

In 1931, Weiss was appointed president of New Orleans Roosevelt Corp. From 1931-1965, he was the main owner and managing director of Roosevelt. The cave is closed in favor of a larger place the floor above is called "The Blue Room" which became the main venue of national music. Weiss sold Roosevelt in 1965. It became the Fairmont Hotel until it shut down after Hurricane Katrina. In August 2007, Dimension Development Company, Inc., Natchitoches, a Louisiana-based hotel development and management company purchased the property, and is currently restoring the building with an opening date scheduled for June 25, 2009. Dimension Development Company Inc., entered into an agreement with Hilton Worldwide to brand the hotel under the main Waldorf Astoria Hilton collection. The hotel has been refurbished The Roosevelt Hotel by Waldorf Astoria. A grand opening was held in 2009. Businessman Sam Friedman of Natchitoches was heavily involved in the reopening. He is the son of the Louisiana State Senator, Sylvan Friedman. Though he has no children, he is the uncle of Seymour Weiss, II, and S J. Weiss. His wife and brother-in-law died in a car accident, leaving two widowers, and two children without mother, one thirteen and one three. The father, his brother, took thirteen years, S.J., and grandparents and Seymour took Seymour, II. Seymour, her parents, and "Little Seymour" live in the hotel. Little Seymour married Sally McNulty and fathered Richard, David, and John Weiss.

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Faithful with Huey

Weiss became the political amplifier of Huey Long, whom he met during the governor's campaign in 1928. Weiss acted as the head of the Long protocol and resolved an unnoticed comedy dispute that developed when the governor received a German delegation at Mardi Gras in 1930 with a pair of pajamas, a red and blue cape, and blue room slippers.

Lama made Weiss's Roosevelt Hotel its headquarters in New Orleans. It is said that Weiss made sure Long never got lost in a large facility hallway. Weiss is a close friend and a regular golf couple with Long. He is easily considered an "insider in Long's right hand." Weiss was present at Long's bedside when he died of a contracted internal infection during an attempt to remove the bullet in an assassination attempt.

Weiss became treasurer of the Louisiana Democratic Association and Long secret political fund. During the Great Depression, Weiss had control of federal aid funds in Louisiana. He is vice president of Win or Lose Corporation, a controversial oil company whose structure was designed by Huey Long. At Long's death, Weiss leads the Commission of Huey P. Long Memorial and remains active in long machines until the scandals engulf the organization.

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Prisons for tax evasion

In 1934, Weiss was indicted by a federal jury in New Orleans on tax evasion charges. He paid back taxes after the allegations were dropped. He was indicted again for tax evasion and alleged mail fraud that grew out of "Louisiana Scandals" in the late 1930s. He was convicted and jailed for sixteen months between 1940 and 1942, before he was released and ordered to pay back taxes. In 1947, he was granted full and unconditional forgiveness by the US President, Harry Truman.

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Weiss as civilian leader

Weiss is a member of the New Orleans Zoning Council and commissioner of the fire department and city police between 1932 and 1936. He is also chairman of the board of commissioners of Port of New Orleans from 1933-1938.

She is active in the American Hotel Association and president of the Louisiana Hotel-Motel and the association of New Orleans Hotels. He won a state award for hotel management in 1952 and 1957. He is a director of the American Red Cross branch of the New Orleans, Chamber of Commerce, and International Mart Trade. In 1968, Weiss led the committee for the 250th anniversary of the founding of New Orleans.

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"Seymour Weiss" appear in these books

• at least 25 references at Kwek Long Penetrating New Orleans: Siege of the City, 1934-36 by Garry Boulard (Author)
• at least 25 references in Huey Long (Vintage) by T. Harry Williams (Author)
• at least 25 references in Louisiana Hayride by Harnett Kane (Author)
• 4 references in Deep Politics and Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott (Author)
• 4 references in The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) by Fred M. Kaplan (Author)
• 4 references in The Swinging Year: The Autobiography Charlie Barnet by Charlie Barnet (Author), Stanley Dance (Author)
• 3 references in The Great Era of Great Dance Bands (A Da Capo Paperback) by Leo Walker
• 3 references in Gerald L. K. Smith: Minister of Hate by Glen Jeansonne
• 2 references in Myself Among Others by George Wein (Author)

A list of artifacts collected from Seymour Weiss plantation, donated by his second wife, Elva Weiss, can be found at Louisiana State University Collection of "The Seymour Weiss Papers" Inventoried & amp; Compiled by Sunny Stein, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Special Collection, Hill Memorial Library and Louisiana State University Library in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in Fall 1999. web/20060902085923/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/s4165.html

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References

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External links

• "Seymour Weiss", Louisiana Biography Dictionary , Vol. 2 (1988), pp.Ã, 831-832.
• An article that discusses Roosevelt Hotel's history
• [1] Article By Ronnie Virgets about Huey Long's relationship with Seymour Weiss & amp; Hotel Roosevelt.
• [2] The article discusses the famous Roosevelt Hotel history of "Blue Room," and it's a house band - "Leon Kelner and his Orchestra."
• "First as Grunewald, then as The Roosevelt, and now The Fairmont New Orleans

An article archived from Time in partnership with CNN entitled, "For Tarpon," and posted Monday, May 10, 1937, is a discussion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit, and Seymour Weiss's references as "Longster" for his close relationship with Huey Long. The article noted Bonnet Carre Spillway, which was built by the US government to protect against flooding.

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An article archived from Time in a partnership with CNN titled, "One Down," posted Monday, September 25, 1939, discusses when a scandal destroyed its embankment in Louisiana in the summer of 1939. The governor and Senator Huey Long had already dead and his heirs: former Governor Richard Webster Leche, New Orleans Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri and New Orleans hotel Seymour Weiss face government demands, including letter fraud.

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The commercial representation of the current Fairmount Hotel - it's history under Weiss and the convenience of today.

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Bob Hope came to New Orleans on July 14, 1955, to play in a golf game at Lakewood Country Club to get United Cerals Palsy Union. His colleagues are Seymour Weiss and his opponents. Sam Israel, Jr., and Edward B. Silverstein.

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