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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messmore Kendall, middle-aged lawyer, real estate tycoon and producer who owns a home at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. and a party apartment over the Capitol Theatre, presented The Breadwinner. The show was chosen as Play-of-the-Month by Play-choice, Inc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...third new group, calling themselves Futura Publications Inc. now proposes to dig out some of the gold that remains in the field. The biggest store chains were already claimed, so Futura has brought together six of the smaller ones.† totalling 1,345 stores, has persuaded them to distribute Futura magazines for 10?. Result: on 1,345 counters this week appeared 500,000 copies of Love Mirror ("Greatest 10 Cent Fiction Magazine") and Movie Mirror ("Filmland's Most Beautiful Magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Futura | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Refining Co. and Fleischmann Co. were indicted for having conspired to furnish him with materials for liquor-making. Gangster Tarro soon died by violence. Corn products did not contest the case, was fined $5,000 recently (TIME, July 20). Last week Fleischmann Co., an integral part of Standard Brands. Inc., was fined $3,000 after pleading nolo contendere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...public in a new $100,000,000 company called Hearst Consolidated Publications (TIME, June 30, 1930; Sept. 7). Last week Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett (Rochester Times-Union, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Hartford Times and 14 other papers) announced he would offer $1,000,000 preferred stock in Gannett Co., Inc. But Publisher Gannett insisted that his company did not need money. Said he: "[The company] has never had a losing year. It was making money before the depression. It has been making money since the depression. It is making money now. The purpose of the financing, he said, was primarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: McCormick's Straw | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...Honolulu, Hawaii last week, William Slocum Barstow, electrical engineer, president and director of Barstow, Tyng & Co., Inc., announced that he and his wife had created a $200,000 foundation for the education of natives of U. S. Samoa. Established in memory of their son Frederic Duclos Barstow, Vermont fox-rancher who visited Samoa three times and became interested in its educational conditions before dying at 35 in Honolulu last May, the fund will be administered by five U. S.-Hawaiians, who once every five years will send an investigator to Samoa to report on the state of education there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: $200,000 to Somoa | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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