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Meyer Davis, biggest businessman among U. S. band leaders, has 89 orchestras, with his name clearly printed on each, 1,100 musicians on his $3,500,000-a-year pay roll. Ever since 1913 he has played for socialites what jazzmen call "long-underwear" music, sweet and tuneful. At 18 he muscled into a Bar Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight...
...bloodshed a little longer, the Defense Commission last week announced a new arbitrato, Gano Dunn, the $1-a-year engineer (J. G. White Engineering Corp.) who had already helped arbitrate a TVA expansion fight last summer, was appointed to study the pros & cons of new steel capacity. On the spot was Defense Priorities Commissioner Ed Stettinius, who is trying as hard as any other businessman to get along with the New Deal. Last week, as a gesture toward the wishes of his steelmaking friends, he appointed a five-man steel priorities board-the first step toward rationing in steel...
Unemployed since his graduation from University of Virginia Law School last June, 26-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. will begin the new year by going to work as a $2,100-a-year law clerk in the Wall Street firm of Wright, Gordon, Zachry & Parlin. His responsibilities: "What they'd give to any young fellow fresh out of law school...
...provided for many an unemployed soldier back from the Civil War digging 30 miles of trenches to drain a 345-acre tract of Chicago swampland, on which rose the Union Stock Yards. Last week the yards - now biggest in the world, centre of Chicago's only billion-dollar -a-year industry - observed their 78th anniversary. Over their scales 896 million ani mals have been sold...
...Strub, the ex-dentist whose managerial genius made Santa Anita the most fabulous race track in the U. S. If Madigan can do as good a job for Golden Gate Park as he did for little St. Mary's, he will be well worth his $15,000-a-year salary...