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Released last February, Socks Lanza lost no time getting himself elected to his $75-a-week job with the union he has lived on since he founded it 21 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Sea Food Papa | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...Bromfield -Harper ($2.50). Louis Bromfield once looked like a good novelist (The Green Bay Tree, The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg); he now seems to be a pretty good guy. To his farm at Mansfield, Ohio, lanky Louis Bromfield returned this spring from a bout of $3,000-a-week screenwriting in Hollywood, settled down to scientific agriculture. Night in Bombay is a full-blown example of meretricious fiction, conditioned almost to the point of innocence by long practice in commercial writing, displaying at every critical point the artistic acumen of a flashy sophomore. Novelist Bromfield is famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...sales-financing business in Manhattan's used-car district. Pacific Finance itself kept well within the law. A corporate Fagin. it did most of its sharking through dummy agencies, sometimes as many as 35 at once. Typical dummy: Chase Discount Corp., whose president and other officers were $25-a-week girls in Pacific Finance's of fice. Furnishing the capital and collecting the profits, Pacific never set its name to its dummies' paper. The Attorney General spent three years nabbing Pacific puppets before he found their sponsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINANCE: Usurer Caught | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Base pay for the Symphony has been $50 a week for a 23-week season, or less than $25 on a yearly basis if a player has no other jobs. The Musicians' Protective Union demanded a $10-a-week raise, a 27-week season. The orchestra association, with a $103.000 deficit, offered several compromises, including a $5 raise, a longer season if more funds could be raised. Said the union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Washington's Symphony Folds | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Amid loud applause (and the back of their hands to cafe society's glamor girls) 18-year-old Muriel Klushin, $15-a-week stenographer, tall, lovely, brunette, was announced winner over 261 rivals. Muriel's prize: a round of Manhattan's most expensive nightspots (with the judges), $100 in cash. With the money Muriel announced she would buy an Easter outfit-but no $2.98 dresses, 98162; hats, 59162; stockings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Miss Cafeteria Society | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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