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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many ways Elder Michaux resembles Harlem's Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, Aug. 7. et seq.). Each declines to tell his age. Each performs good works among poor Negroes. Each lulls his followers with a catchword (Father Divine's: "Peace, It's Wonderful''). Each preaches a warm, rambling theology. But Elder Michaux makes no claim to divinity. Once a fish peddler in Norfolk, he preached in Hopewell, Va., went to Washington in 1929 to found the Church of God under the Gospel Spreading Association. A small Alexandria radio station, WJSV, began picking up his services...
Weakened by its off-key conclusion, Success at Any Price is not improved by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s skin-deep performance. Colleen Moore appears for the first time since she started a comeback in The Power and the Glory (TIME, Aug. 28). Mousy, pallid, indecisive, she is no longer the pert, starry-eyed actress of 'flapper" roles in silent picture days, when exhibitors voted her the industry's No. 1 box office attraction...
Acquitted. Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, Economics Professor Benjamin Mark Squires, and 15 others; in Chicago after a four months' trial on charges of racketeering in the laundry, dyeing & cleaning, carbonated beverage, and linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...
...President William F. Humphrey. 15 other officers and directors, including Paul Shoup. vice chairman of Southern Pacific Co. Indictments were based on no less than 185 counts for Associated, 149 for Standard, including one for each day's violation of the oil code after it was signed Aug. 19. The charges: 1) Standard Oil of California secretly controls two small companies. Signal Oil & Gas of Delaware and Signal Oil & Gas of California, while Associated controls smallish Seaside Oil Co.; 2 ) these subsidiaries, while posing as competitors of their parent companies, conspired to sell Standard and Associated gasoline...
Newspaper readers who remember the Gastonia, N. C. mill strike (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929, et seq.) will recognize bits of the ensuing trial scene. Trial highspots: the prosecution raises a laugh against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting...