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...Errol Flynn asked a Los Angeles judge to throw out an attachment suit brought by an actors' agent, said it cost him $14,595 a month to live. His monthly items: $5,000 for taxes; $4,000 for publicity; $1,000 for the support of a boat; $1,200 household expenses; $2,000 personal upkeep for himself and wife Lili Damita; $1,395 for miscellaneous this and that. The judge decided $12,000 was plenty. ∙ ∙ Joe Louis filed a plea in Chicago to have wife Marva's $200-a-week temporary alimony halved. He said...
Three years ago, in Portland, squat, square-jawed Theodore Patrick Flynn, senior equipment engineer for the U.S. Forest Service, started working on a power-driven saw. Several logging-equipment companies in the Northwest began to manufacture the saws experimentally, but they caught on slowly with lumbermen...
...Tumble Creek, along the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon's Willamette (rhymes with damn it) National Forest, Engineer Flynn's power saws last week stood a conclusive test. Called in to fight a forest fire, the Forest Service took along two power saws, 90 fallers armed with axes and ordinary crosscut saws, pitted them against each other...
Maybe, instead, he was trying to put a knife in Franklin Roosevelt's frantic little friend Fiorello LaGuardia. It all depended on how you looked at it, when Boss Flynn handed Brooklyn's blue-eyed, stocky District Attorney William O'Dwyer the job of running against LaGuardia for mayor of New York City...
...cynical Brooklyn voters, knowing the New Deal will be solidly behind the President's Little Flower, thought Ed Flynn was probably setting up Brooklyn's O'Dwyer just to knock him over...