Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Armed with letters like these praising his work in the 1932 campaign, and described as a New Jersey real-estate operator, one Samuel W. ("Big Sam") Silverman recently opened offices in Manhattan as the National Association of Roosevelt for 1940 Clubs, Inc., began soliciting contributions. Making an official disclaimer for the Democratic National Committee, canny old Publicity Director Charles Michelson cryptically observed: "Purely an individual enterprise, similar to some of Mr. Silverman's projects of the past...
...oddest outfits in the very odd business of radio is Blackett-Sample-Hummert Inc. Not only is the company the No. 1 buyer of radio time, it is the No. 1 producer of radio material-and, incidentally, a big source of professional exasperation...
When a script is finished by the ghost writers it goes to an adjunct of the Hummert mill known as Air Features, Inc. for production. No Hummert ghost may even stick his nose inside Air Features' production studios...
...only writers but actors are concerned with B-S-H's system. Radio has no prescribed wage scale, although most big agency production units pay a basic wage of about $25 for a 15-minute stint, rehearsals included. Featured Artists Service, Inc., the Hummert casting agency, pays a basic $12.50 but rehearsals are briefer than most and great numbers of players get fairly steady work (a serial can hold out as long as a sponsor can). But American Federation of Radio Artists (A. F. of L. affiliated) insists that this is not reason enough for half-pay. Last week...
...Spiegel, Inc., Chicago mail-order house, started a guaranteed annual wage program for 3,500 employes. Men were assured pay for 40 hours a week, women for 36. If they work less, they will make it up in rush periods...