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Justice Roberts, having his biggest day in court since he switched over to the liberal bloc in 1937, read yet another opinion of No. 1 significance. Three years ago it fell to him to knock out the New Deal's first AAA, partly on the ground that the U. S. Government cannot constitutionally control the production of farms. Ruling last week on the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, Owen Roberts held for a majority of six that its provisions authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to limit the amount of tobacco which any grower may sell do not limit production...
...five position has been Coach Team Bolles' biggest problem Wait Kernan, four man last spring has been switched to starboard to fill the vacancy caused by Gardiner's graduation. Finishing far out to port, consistently catching late and missing water, Kernan remains the question mark of the Bolles boat...
Wheaties' style of reporting ("Crack! A hot liner over second. Boy, Ducky-Wucky Medwick must have had a heaping dish of Wheaties this morning.") has become a running gag among baseball players, but it sells. The biggest (230 Ibs.) and the best Wheaties' announcer, 37-year-old Arch McDonald from Arkansas, adds a lingo of his own. A baseball buff from boyhood and a baseball announcer for the last eight seasons, Arch McDonald has the job of covering the home games of the World Champion Yankees and the Giants this season over WABC. He will collect a salary...
...Oliver family, whose fortune once totted up to $40,000,000, is still the biggest individual owner of the company, but management has passed to more adept hands. President now is red-cheeked, husky Cal Sivright, who helped Oliver beat Depression by developing the first streamlined tractor. Well liked-except for a habit of asking to see employes' work sheets-he drives points home by banging on the arm of his chair. So characteristic is the gesture that the firm has taken pictures of it for posterity...
Cinema, always the most open-handed U. S. industry, outdid itself in 1937. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. alone paid 240 salaries of $15,000 or more, and M. G. M. and its parent company, Loew's Inc., paid the two biggest salaries of all: $1,296,503 in salary and bonus to Production Executive Louis B. Mayer, $694,123 to Loew's Vice President J. Robert Rubin. Loew's President Nicholas M. Schenck got $489,602. Highest paid performers: Actress Greta Garbo, $472,499; Actor Fredric March (who deserted Hollywood for Broadway...