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After Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, chief U.S. trust buster, had argued for an hour that Petrillo's edict not only established a closed shop but tried "to secure a closed country," brusque Judge Barnes did not even bother to hear Petrillo's side of the case. He had read the record, he said, and was convinced the case before him was a labor dispute between union musicians and record manufacturers and radio stations. The Norris-LaGuardia Act outlawed injunctions in labor disputes, said the judge; furthermore, he could find no violations of the Sherman...
...line, there's a rangy whiplash called Buster Ramsey, also Conference champ, a guard who spends more time in opposing backfields than a lot of wingbacks. Ramsey's reputedly almost mystical sense of ball-following, his terrific charge and endurance help him sink most ball-carriers before they come near the line of scrimmage...
Meanwhile James Caesar Petrillo had another battle on his hands. Next fortnight the Government hopes to slap an injunction on Petrillo to end his boycott against recordings. On hand to push the Government's case will be Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. So far Trust-Buster Arnold has had no great success in his brushes with organized labor. But this time he has popular opinion behind him. A Gallup Poll question, "Do you approve or disapprove of the Government taking legal action to stop Petrillo?" turned up a 73% chorus of ayes...
Burly Barbara Lucy Taylor, Long Island's buster of police booths, was given 90 days in jail and a suspended one-year sentence for busting two more in Nassau County in anger after police gave her traffic tickets. The 28-year-old cop-hater served 25 days in jail last year for busting...
...introduced trick photography for comic effect. The second picture on the program, "High and Dizzy," produced in 1920 and directed by Hal Roach, features Harold Lloyd and the first developments from slapstick. The last picture to be shown, "The Navigation," produced in 1924 and directed by Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton, contains the beginnings of satire with Buster Keaton's portrayal of the Robinson Crusoe of a machine wilderness. The Society has planned three more performances for July 27, August 19, and September...