Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paramount Pictures, Inc. retained him to "survey" its practices, problems and policies. Though Paramount emerged from a 77B reorganization last year, the company still has its troubles. Since much of both his fortune and experience was derived from cinema companies and their stocks, Joe Kennedy was as logical a choice for this overhaul as he had been for RCA's. Said Repairman Kennedy: "How long the engagement will be is undecided...
Cammann Newberry and Arnett MacKennan, Gordon and Revel of Harvard's song-writing world, are quite pleased at being asked to join the famous ASCAP. As full fledged professionals (Mills Music, Inc. bought five of their Hasty Pudding songs) they can now join the society headed by such shining lights as Jerome Kern, Berlin, Gershwin, Walter Donaldson and others. Quite an honor, too, as well as being profitable. If the boys keep at it and keep turning out hits the way they've been doing they'll be drawing down big money soon. . . . Paging Brooks Bowman...
Simon & Schuster, Inc...
...same time that the Post Office Department cracked down on the Association for Legalizing American Lotteries, it summoned two similar Manhattan organizations to Washington to show cause why they should not be also barred from the mails. One of them, the National Conference on Legalizing Lotteries, Inc., has for its president Mrs. Oliver Harriman...
...suspend a member until after his firm was enjoined from further business by the Attorney General of New York, President Gay got his first taste of stern public criticism. Walter P. McCaffray & Co. got into trouble in an effort to bolster an affiliated concern called German American Securities Co. Inc. by lending it some $100,000 last summer. To raise part of that sum Walter P. McCaffray & Co. borrowed too freely upon its customers' securities. Meantime, according to the prosecuting attorney, German American was doing some highly irregular bookkeeping...