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...TIME err in saying that Samuel Goldwyn was never associated with M-G-M (TIME, Nov. 15, p. 42) ? According to The Great Goldwyn by Alva Johnston, Goldwyn was once a part of MGM. Evidently this must be correct for rumor has it that Goldwyn bought 5,000 copies [of this book...
Samuel Goldwyn according to his own office was never connected with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The "Goldwyn" in M-G-M is his original Goldwyn Pictures Corp. which merged with Metro and Mayer in 1924, two years after Sam Goldwyn himself had left it. Alva Johnston's account does not directly contradict this fact...
...wool, but they claimed that wool tops margins are too low, speculation too rife. The Providence Journal announced that a group of dealers this week will ask the Senate Wool Investigating Committee to suspend trading in wool tops futures. While other wool factions called this "ridiculous," Senator Alva Blanchard Adams of Colorado, chairman of the committee, which was appointed in 1935 to look into the marketing of wool after producers protested that they got too low prices in large business centres, opined that it did not have power to suspend trading anyway...
Freed. Grocer George W. Norris of Alva, Okla., from the Lincoln, Neb., city jail, after having served three months for perjury in connection with his attempt, in 1930, to enter the Nebraska Republican primary elections as Senatorial candidate opposed to venerable Senator George W. Norris (TIME, April 5, et ante); in Lincoln...
...Still living are Thomas Alva Edison's second wife and their three children; one daughter by his first wife...