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Hotel Owner to Workers: No Spanish!

By MELANIE DABOVICH
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TAOS, N.M. (Oct. 26) -- Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel.
2009-10-26 10:23:59

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Larry Whitten marched into Taos, NNew Mexico, in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel. He immediately laid down some new rules. Among them, he forbade the Hispanic workers at the hotel from speaking Spanish in his presence (he thought they\'d be talking about him), and ordered some to Anglicize their names.