Word: cineman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East. Born 41 years ago in San Rafael across the Bay from San Francisco, he grew rich before he was 30 as a real estate and theatre promoter. In 1924 he went to Manhattan for a rest, sold West Coast Theatres Co. to William Fox, was retained as Cineman Fox's chief fixer. He was mainly concerned with accumulating properties for Fox Theatres Corp. A shrewd, able negotiator, Fixer Blumenthal piled chain upon chain. He it was who negotiated the famed $50,000,000 Loew's deal for William Fox. Natty, chipmunkish Fixer Blumenthal boasts that after months...
Interstate Power Co., subsidiary of Utilities Power & Light Corp., headed by Harley Lyman Clarke, whilom (1930-32) cineman...
...Corp., still lay ill abed with diabetes, dizziness and a bad cold (TIME, June 27). Though refusing to release him from its subpoena, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee finally decided not to quiz him until hearings on stock exchange practices are resumed next autumn (see col. 1). Cineman Fox promptly rose from his sick bed, checked...
Brothers Warner. To drive home his contention that corporate officials capitalize their "inside" knowledge in stock-market speculation, Counsel Gray haled President Harry M. Warner of Warner Bros, (films) before the Committee. A onetime shoemaker, Cineman Warner admitted that he and his brothers, Albert & Jack, had made $7,500,000 in 1930 by disposing of most of their holdings early in the year, repurchasing at lower prices. Pointing out that the dividend had been passed after the Warners sold out, Counsel Gray insisted that President Warner must have been aware of impending action. President Warner strenuously denied...
...resigned abruptly in January every other cinema producer sought him. It was big news when he entered Fox Film as vice president. And it was big and significant news when he was promoted last week to Fox's presidency, for it is the first time that a real cineman has guided Fox since William Fox was ousted and bankers stepped...