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Late last night brought one consoling message to quieted Freshman Potter. Wired cousin Rudi, "Congratulations! Send me any surplus, collect...
...started the rash of radio giveaway programs. Then he tangled with Jules Caesar Stein's Music Corp. of America, which controls a glittering array of movie and radio talent as tightly as James Caesar Petrillo controls his musicians. As agent for Heidt, Jules Stein was not content to collect only 10% of Heidt's musical earnings; he wanted a cut of all Heidt's earnings. Heidt refused and was forced to quit the music business until 1947, when his contract with Stein expires...
...Honest Harold is a little too old, crotchety and hog-on-ice independent for ICCASP. The Committee wanted him to speak here, there & everywhere; Harold wanted to speak only at rallies of his own choosing. Result: Ickes will make some speeches for the Committee this fall, and will not collect anything near $25,000. Asked about Jo Davidson's political savvy, Ickes replied: "He's a good sculptor...
...purge (TIME, July 8) which started this wave of self-criticism was also going strong. Among its recent targets: "medical racketeers," housing officials who "systematically extorted bribes from working people in need of rooms," and managers caught red-handed in the "antiState practice of falsifying reports" in order to collect bonuses for nonexistent production...
...stockholders last week were of the same temper. They looked beyond the $2 billion expansion program (reason for the new financing) to see its effect on A. T. & T. earnings. What they saw was not to their liking. A.T. & T.'s whopping new issue of debentures would collect interest before the distribution of stock dividends. They promptly dumped their holdings-18,300 shares on Thursday alone...