Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matthew Chauncey Brush, president of American International Corp., famed bear and first witness called by the committee after Mr. Whitney. American Brush Co., headed by G. S. Brush, brother of Matthew. Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, known in Wall Street as "No. 1 bear." W. E. Button &; Co., where Smith makes his office. Ludwig Bendix, no relation to Vincent. Miss M. A. Boyle, who was identified as an associate of Bernard Mannes Baruch. financier and Democrat, but denied she held the account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded...
Four exhibits are scheduled for next fall. These will be, "Stage Sets and Costume Design", "Soviet Art", "Paintings and Sculptures by Harvard Students", and Ben Shahn's "Pictorial Treatment of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case...
Girl Crazy (RKO) is a vehicle fit for the comic talents of Robert Woolsey and Ben Wheeler, two funnymen from vaudeville who have lately aroused so much enthusiasm among cinemaddicts that they were last week the principals in an experiment to find a new way of paying actors. Harry Cohn, new president of Columbia Pictures Corp., announced that he had hired Wheeler & Woolsey to make a picture for a royalty on its profits, an arrangement never before tried by a major producing company. If it works. Columbia will try it on other employes...
...Sennett), 42, film producer, bathing girl fancier; in Hollywood. Born in Canada, a blacksmith's son with operatic aspirations, he emigrated to the U. S., became a boilermaker and choir-singer. After going to Hollywood in 1911, he developed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Ben Turpin, originated the cinema custard...
...Slim, bespectacled Ben Eastman of Stanford: a 440-yd. race at Palo Alto in which he lowered Ted Meredith's 16-year-old world record by one second...