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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Harry Augustus Bigelow of the University of Chicago Law School was appointed trustee of bankrupt Insull Utility Investments, Inc., after Calvin Fentress and William W. Wheelock had been disqualified by Judge Wilkerson because they were elected by the debenture holder's protective committee, supposedly partial to the Insulls. Dean Bigelow's feelings: "Begin at the bottom and work...
Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Matthew Chauncey Brush and Charles E. Richardson resigned as directors of Fox Film Corp. to make way for Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware (receiver for General Theatres Equipment, Inc., which controls Fox) and several Fox officials. No change of control was signified, but gentlemen had a natural desire to retire from a directorate on which the limelight of Senatorial investigation may soon be playing...
Mayhem and yellow faces are allied for eternity in the card files of the Amalgamated American Cinematic Producers Inc. The "Son-Daughter" follows an ancient and well worn path. There are hatchet-men lurking in every misty street; twitching bodies are hurled from burly coaches into squalid streets; gentlemen with slanted eyes find their necks stretched in uncomfortable machines while a merry troop of rats nibbles their big toes; there is the sparse fellow with a shredded wheat beard who carries poison under his finger nails. And just because 5000 miles away a Revolution is being conducted in China...
...Christ Temple Pentecostal Church of the World, Inc., which has blithely engaged in swelling its coffers through the soiled rentals of the Cotton Club, occupant of its premises, now insists that Mr. Solomon's organization has "damnified" its temple. The Christ Temple Pentecostal Church gently but firmly suggests that the indemnifying process will cost the Cotton Club just twenty thousand dollars. This sum is calculated to soothe the "outraged confidence" of its communicants, and to bolster up the "lost morale" of the Church...
...very cynical asperity to state that the Christ Temple Pentecostal Church, Inc., protests too much. Its property, from which the missionary voice has not echoed of late, was, through the good offices of Mr. Solomon, an extremely profitable investment. Scarcely captions either is the suggestion that Christ Temple, Inc., has made good use of its tax exemption privilege. The posthumous reports of Mr. Solomon's wit may be exaggerated, but he surely told no one he was conducting an athletic organization." If the Pentecostal brethren chose to believe that he was somnolence or mendacity must be their alternatives...