Word: hertz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paramount did not go down without a struggle. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with its first & foremost function- making, distributing and exhibiting films. Its troubles were almost wholly financial. And in 1931 its bankers cajoled John Daniel Hertz into taking the Paramount command as chairman of the finance committee. The thickset, sinewy Chicago financier had been making half-hearted attempts to retire since 1926 when he sold his Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. to General Motors for more than a few millions...
...months Taximan Hertz lopped $39,000,000 from the Paramount budget-$6,000,000 in salaries alone. He wangled reductions in rentals and interest, ordered executives to file expense vouchers-a startling innovation-and marched through the payroll with a big blue pencil. In the film industry, which is notorious for its nepotism, such Hertzian tactics were bound to stir up trouble. And having made enemies right & left, Mr. Hertz finally called for a showdown on his right to hire & fire. He lost. So horsy John Hertz retired to his polo and his racing. Early in 1933, unable...
...months ago the city government voted $10,000 for five popular-priced concerts, picked as conductor reliable old Alfred Hertz, who was ousted from his Symphony job five years ago when Dobrowen was engaged. Last week San Franciscans again rose to the occasion, voted $3,000-to-47,000 for a symphony subsidy expected to yield $35,000 a year. To be raised by a tax of ½% per $100 of assessed property, the subsidy will be administered by the City Art Commission and the Musical Association. The Association will provide $35,000 more to guarantee at least...
...clubhouse were John D. Hertz, Jack Dempsey, Postmaster General Farley, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane and J. H. Louchheim of Philadelphia, who bet $1,000 on his Morpluck and then contrived to lose his pari-mutuel tickets to a pickpocket who got no good out of them. A squad of National Guardsmen used clubs to keep the spectators in the infield under control. The spectators threw chairs at the guardsmen...
Tomorrow's Harvest (by Hans Rastede & Hyman Adler; Douglas G. Hertz, producer). By means of a weak heart Papa Goerlich, a fireside Hitler, tyrannizes over his cowed German-American family. Nothing must be done to excite him for fear the result might be fatal. It takes Papa Goerlich an unconscionable amount of time to die but he finally does. Tomorrow's Harvest falters on for another act, then it does...