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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royale Apartments facing the Wiltshire Golf Course. She does not play golf. Her major hobby is deep sea fishing. She has never caught a fish or even had a strike. She has few friends in the cinema industry. Most of the employes on the Warner lot, where her contract has another year to run, believe her husband is a millionaire connected with S. W. Straus & Co. ("44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor"). W. Straus & Co. is in receivership. Claire Dodd's husband is actually Richard Straus, a Los Angeles realtor of moderate means. She likes large dogs...
Quite unquenchable, Archie Andrews was nevertheless bursting with excitement over new developments in his swift ideas of persuading people to help sell his automobiles (TIME, March n). Not the least of the contracts which Mr. Drake had temporarily enjoined was one with Seminole Paper Corp., an International Paper subsidiary which makes toilet paper. No routine agreement for the purchase of plant & office supplies, the Seminole contract concerned a grandiose scheme for obtaining the names of prospective automobile buyers...
...worst threat to Recovery was the prospect of an immediate strike of all bituminous coal miners. The hour & wage agreement which President Roosevelt helped negotiate in 1933, was due to expire at midnight, March 31. In Washington, operators' and miners' committees had been deadlocked over a new contract since mid-February. Operators stood firm for a one-year extension of the current contract. Miners, in the person of United Mine Workers' shrewd, hefty President John L. Lewis, wanted hours cut from 35 to 30 per week, wages upped from...
...head of that office-Senator Long's Marvin Mclntyre, "Steve" Early and James Aloysius Farley rolled into one-is Earle J. Christenberry. Secretary Christenberry works on a yearly contract, holds Mr. Long's power of attorney, pays his bills, looks after his $55,000 life insurance. Fourteen years ago Mr. Christenberry claimed the world's record in stenography, later ran a public stenographic service in New Orleans. He got his job early one morning when Huey Long called him up and dictated a long letter over the telephone. Nowadays he works Sundays, nights and holidays. He sees...
Settling down to the security of a newspaper career, Pilot Collins brought his wife and children east fortnight ago, installed them in a Long Island apartment, decided to give up test-piloting for good just as soon as he cleaned up his contract with Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. to test a new Navy fighter...