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...Modern Woodmen had their first and only crisis. After a scandal started when $3,000 was paid to a fake claimant, Founder Root was deposed, formed the rival order of Woodmen of the World, which now has assets of $116,000,000, insurance in force of over $415,000,000. Modern Woodmen dwarfs its younger rival, however. Today it has 10,000 lodges in 46 States and four Canadian provinces. Only Missouri and Massachusetts spurn it. Membership has been as high as 1,182,756, is now about 500,000. More than $545,000,000 has been paid to beneficiaries...
...continual reappearance of a man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency who is trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn and two stuffed owls. There are also a frantic and shirtless stage manager, a great penultimate fake deathbed scene which keeps Miller and almost everyone else from being taken to jail for fraud and forgery. Critical consensus is that Room Service will be notable for long life as well as long laughs...
...Federal Court in Newark, N. J. last week District Judge Guy Leverne Fake denied the Madison Square Garden Corp.'s plea for a temporary injunction to stop the scheduled heavyweight prize fight between Champion James Braddock and Challenger Joe Louis in Chicago on June 22. The court ruled that the Garden's contract with Braddock "places an unreasonable restraint upon his liberty." For the benefit of fight fans who want to keep up with the heavyweight legal tangle, the New York Times's versatile Sportswriter John Kieran submitted this brief at week...
...Braddock v. Madison Square Garden or vice versa, the first round went to Braddock on negative points (Federal Court, 1937, Fake, J.). However, Braddock now proceeds 'sub suo periculo' and is, among other things, subject to estoppel by deed of Louis, J., when, as and if the issue is presented 'per curiam' on June 22, as specified on the Illinois calendar...
...Tell our legionnaires I am following their action hourly. . . . Mussolini." This drew prompt official denial from Rome where it was called "a fake, clumsy trick...