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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice, the National Training School for Boys (abolishing its board of trustees) and Federal Prison Industries Inc...
Last week University of Chicago also received a big gift, from no unknown but an ardent alumnus who still lives in a fraternity house (Psi Upsilon) on Chicago's campus. The donor: broad-shouldered Daniel Hedges Brown, '16, onetime Hearst circulation manager, now president of Morris Mills, Inc., inventors and manufacturers of "Germ" flour (TIMEX Aug. 15). The gift: 20% of the annual royalties on Morris Mills' flour making process. If, as Mr. Brown is confident, all U. S. mills adopt his process, Chicago's income from it will be $1,-000,000 a year...
...last season, Hollywood had no production finger in any important Broadway pie. But unlike last season, it paid some fancy prices for hits. Abe Lincoln in Illinois was sold to Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Co. Inc. on a cash and royalty basis that may come to over $300,000, set a record. The American Way was sold to Gordon for $250,000. Setting a precedent, The Philadelphia Story was sold to Katharine Hepburn (its star) before it ever opened on Broadway...
...plump, round-faced Josephine Hancock Logan and her husband set up annual awards for Chicago's famed Art Institute. Grieved by the "modernist" paintings which walked away with the prizes, Mrs. Logan four years ago declared war on her own awards, founded the Society for Sanity in Art, Inc. Last week, at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, the Society came of age with its first national exhibition. Mrs. Logan turned up early, dressed in pink lace, pink gloves, diamond and emerald bracelets, a hat of feathers and flowers. While an eight-piece orchestra played her favorite tunes...
Died. Arthur J. Smith, 41, frustrated Führer of the fascistic "Khaki Shirts of America, Inc.", of heart disease; in Shamokin, Pa. In 1933 "Commander-in-Chief" Smith claimed 6,000,000 recruits, established headquarters in Philadelphia, announced plans to march on Washington. When his plans fizzled, Smith...