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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million mail order and retail business for the second time in seven months. Franklin Roosevelt also ordered Ward's to obey two War Labor Board directives: 1) to pay retroactive raises to 17% of Ward's 70,000 employes;* 2) to sign a union contract guaranteeing maintenance of membership. Sputtered Sewell Avery, the New Deal's No. 1 industrial hairshirt: "Arbitrary . . . coercive . . . illegal." Citing Roosevelt's failure to act against James C. Petrillo, he added: "If the President can, as he pleases . . . seize the property of some but not of others the nation no longer...
...care & feeding of females - in this case Selznick actresses - is one of Colby's most important functions. Joan Fontaine, for instance, has long felt that Selznick has exploited her. Colby, if she does not cajole Miss Fontaine into coming to terms about a new contract, will at least set up the very best possible arrangement for her boss. Selznick meanwhile will know exactly what is going on in Miss Fontaine's mind (unless Miss Fontaine is mighty careful) by virtue of sitting in vicariously on the kind of female conversations which generally take place in the powder room...
...decided to walk out on his contract, and his nervous employers decided he might as well. George Burns readily agreed. Then Bill Goodwin played his ace: this week he becomes the featured comedian on the Frank Sinatra program-with the Swoonmaster as straight man. Salary: $1,000 a week...
...bankers who had helped finance his other private-into-public-ownership deals in Nebraska. As security, the bankers received $15.6 million of short-term notes of the Loup River Public Power District of Nebraska, a part of the "little TVA." Loup River in turn got what it wanted, a contract to sell power to Nebraska Power. Myers did not forget himself. His fee: $500,000, of which he will clear some...
Outside Philadelphia, Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. opened its spick-&-span $26,000,000 plant with a blare of publicity. A month later the Navy canceled its contract with Budd...