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...Lucifer, who is at large in the world and now grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Witnesses have recently been mobbed from Maine to Cali fornia (TIME, June 24). Last week they suffered: 1) at Columbus, Ohio, where Governor Bricker refused to reinstate a canceled contract that would have permit ted them to hold their national convention at the State Fair Grounds; 2) at Clarks burg, W. Va., where they were struck from relief rolls for refusal to salute the flag; 3) at Ocean City, N. J., where Mrs. Ethel R. Winkler was jailed...
Horton's performance in Springtime for Henry is not solely a labor of love. His contract calls for a minimum of $500 a week. He gets a third of the gross when it amounts to more than $1,500. Only permanent member of Horton's company besides himself is Marjorie Lord, who was discovered by Horton in Saratoga, N. Y. The other two characters required for the play are hired in advance by Horton's stage manager, given a dress rehearsal when Horton and Lord arrive in town...
...Chicago, he distinguished himself there by boosting NBC billings to over a million a month, just twelve times as much as the New York headmen expected him to get when they sent him west in 1928. Big feather in Trammell's Chicago cap was a "million-dollar" contract he wangled with Pepsodent, which transformed Amos 'n' Andy from a sustaining show into a national institution in 1929. A great one for soap operas, he can still point with pride to such Trammell-promoted shows as Clara, Lu 'n' Em, Fibber McGee and Molly, Betty...
...self-contained, beautifully tooled plant that has been an industry model for precise engineering. The plant continued to make airplane engines for the Government until 1925. And Packard became the fastest name in marine engines too. This arm of the Packard business got the company a fat Government contract last March: $2,000,000 worth of supermarine engines for the U. S. Navy...
This pragmatic decision drew indignant prose from New Dealer Eicher. His dissent: "No ingenuity can square it with the standards of the Act. . . . Corporate management that, without contract compulsion, voluntarily doffs its Mother Hubbard of untrammeled business action [meaning its preferred stock] and dons a strait jacket of shortly-maturing secured debt deserves and should expect searching examination into the justification for its policy." Eicher's dissent overlooked the fact that Atlas sits on both sides of the table in Ogden Corp.; that, from a practical standpoint, the deal is largely bookkeeping. But he was cleaving to an abstract...