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Money. By Labor Day 1932 the Republican National Committee had spent $96,203 on its Presidential campaign, final cost of which was $2,611,380. Last week Treasurer Charles Barnett ("Barney") Goodspeed, husky Chicago socialite and charitarian, reported to the Clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives that the National Committee had this year received $2,050,655 between June 1 and Sept. 1, spent $1,787,811. Balance on hand was nearly half a million.* Donations of $100 or more accounted...
Hailed as a new lightweight champion, Ambers embraced his onetime employer, capered around his dressing room in a cardboard crown, urged his manager to get him a match with Welterweight Champion Barney Ross. Product of a bootleg boxing circuit which flourished in upstate New York when promoters were too poor or too parsimonious to pay for licenses, Ambers is 22, untemperamental, attached to numerous other D'Ambrosios by those ties of affection which all right-thinking young pugilists consider themselves conventionally compelled to profess. He makes his home in a Bronx apartment run for him by his sister, often...
...Kennedy report. Though the management has been turned upside down, Mr. Kennedy did not proceed with his work, his connection with the company having ended July 1. Old Chairman Adolph Zukor had already been shipped to Hollywood to try to straighten out production. President John Edward Otterson was fired, Barney Balaban, an experienced showman taking his place (TIME, July 13). Other showmen were added to the board to replace businessmen directors. Since Mr. Kennedy first looked at it last May, the Paramount Picture has brightened considerably...
Eldest of the seven sons of a Russian immigrant who ran a grocery store on Chicago's West Side, Barney Balaban got into cinema in the days of the nickelodeon. His only sister was the wife of Sam Katz. Balaban and Katz were the first theatre owners to cool their patrons in summer with mechanical refrigeration, an innovation presumably inspired by Barney Balaban's early experience in the cold-storage business. They were the first to cut dull shots from newsreels, the first to go in for super-colossal theatres. Balaban & Katz became the biggest theatre-chain...
...chain was sold to Paramount for about $10,000,000 in stock, Barney Balaban becoming the biggest Paramount stockholder except old Adolph Zukor. Sam Katz went into Paramount and out again while Barney Balaban stayed on to run his chain as a Paramount subsidiary. Now 48, reserved, deliberate, hardworking, he lives on Chicago's North Shore, is active in Jewish affairs, takes a great interest in the Chicago Riding Club and the Arlington (Ill.) race track, both of which he helped found. Taking a sly poke at Wall Street's various unsuccessful attempts to run a Hollywood enterprise...