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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shirley Temple's father is an easy-going Branch manager for the California Bank in Santa Monica; his salary is about $300 a month. He makes a habit of taking clippings about Shirley to work with him, picks up his wife and daughter at the studio on his way home. Business at his branch has picked up 5% since his daughter became famed; new depositors often turn out to be people who want to get their children cinema work. Indignant at suggestions that he should quit his job to manage his daughter's affairs, George F. Temple pays...
...Last week a petition was filed in a Brooklyn Federal Court by Eggs Inc. of Smithtown Branch, L. I. seeking permission for a reorganization under the new bankruptcy law. A Manhattan newspaper promptly headlined the item: EGGS (INC.) BUSTED. A quality poultry farm handling as many as 100,000 chickens, 1,000,000 eggs a year. Eggs, Inc. sold pheasants to New York's famed restaurateur, Henri Charpentier, who insisted that they be killed on the wing. It gave them a special flavor to be shot down while tense, said he. President Edwin J. Walker of Eggs, Inc. took live...
Last week, accordingly, Congressmen took up their summer jobs as the fourth branch of the Government. The House Military Affairs subcommittee, which fortnight ago demanded the retirement of General Foulois as chief of the Army Air Corps, reopened the question of Assistant Secretary Harry Woodring's Army contracts. Senator Pope of Idaho announced that investigators for the Munitions Committee were discovering ''shocking" evidence, which would come out when its public hearings start in September. Representative Dickstein's Nazi hunt and Senator Black's year-old investigation of ocean and air mails were simmering at summer...
...investigators of the Department of Commerce could not talk under a law forbidding them to make public their findings as to the causes of individual disasters. Last week that system was changed when President Roosevelt approved an amendment to the Air Commerce Act of 1926, giving the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce power to hold public hearings, subpoena witnesses, compel testimony under oath. In case of serious or fatal injury, publication of the Department's findings is made mandatory...
...heavy damages being awarded in civil suits based on the Government's findings, the new amendment provides that no part of the Government hearing or statement as to cause of accidents shall be used in civil lawsuits. Simultaneously last week Secretary Roper ordered the name of the Aeronautics Branch changed to the Bureau of Air Commerce...