Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after more than a year of pondering, Federal Judge Julian William Mack in Manhattan handed down a 100,000-word opinion. The decision: the Sugar Institute, a trade association representing 99% of the sugar refined in the U. S., operated in violation of the anti- trust laws and was guilty of conspiracy in restraint of trade. But: "While most of the relief asked by the Government must be granted, the dissolution of the Institute . . . need not be decreed...
...Judge Mack admitted that the anarchy of the sugar trade at the time the Institute was founded in 1927 fully justified drastic action. "Divorced from its illegalities the Institute offers certain opportunities for effecting desirable results," said the Judge. "In most of their activities, however, they [Institute members] have . . . gone much further than was necessary to accomplish their end. . . . The record has revealed a striking absence of effort on the defendants' part to approach their solution in a truly disinterested and constructive spirit. Too often they have disregarded the true facts and the interests of distributors and consumers. . . . They...
...Marmon, 58, commander of the 6th Infantry, U. S. A.; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An elaborate military welcome was arranged at Governors Island, Colonel Marmon's post. It was his first marriage. Miss Frederick's fifth. Her previous husbands: Frank M. Andrews, Manhattan architect (divorced); Willard Mack, famed actor-playwright (divorced); Dr. Charles Rutherford, Seattle doctor (divorced); Hugh Chisholm Leighton, Los Angeles hotelman who obtained an annulment on charges of fraud and non-consummation...
...temper, vile language, character assassination. Crooner Vallée countered with affidavits reciting spicy telephone chats between Fay Webb and Garfield ("Gary") Leon, adagio dancer. Separated. John Gilbert, 36, film actor; and Virginia Bruce Gilbert, film a tress, his fourth wife. Reason: incompatibility. Died. Charles E. Sellers ("Charles E. Mack"), 46, blackface comedian, "head man" of the Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional...
...studios after last year's production of King Kong. Unlike famed Kong, 30-ft. prehistoric whatnot who, transplanted to Manhattan, was shot by airplanes off the top of the Empire State Building, his son is a mild hobgoblin, with small taste for adventure. When Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack (instead of Fay Wray, who aroused his father's lust) arrive to hunt for hidden treasure on his South Sea island, he greets them hospitably, defends them against hostile natives...