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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record of Fascist progress in Germany is that Herr Hitler's party polled 6,500,000 votes in the Reichstag election of 1930 and last week polled over eleven million votes...
...service, then an innovation in Greater New York (since copied by other Brooklyn papers). In less than ten years the Times reached 100,000 circulation. The Eagle still has more than twice as much advertising, but last year it lost 750,000 lines while the Times gained about a million...
...employes in the form of stock distributions, $6,000,000. His civic improvements in Rochester were the Rochester Dental Dispensary, Rochester Chamber of Commerce Building, Eastman School of Music, Eastman Theatre (now closed), Rochester Civic Orchestra. To Rome, London, Paris, Stockholm and Brussels he gave million-dollar dental & throat clinics. His private interests included art, music, big game hunting (in Africa, with the Martin Johnsons), calendar reform. He whittled, baked cakes & pies, collected orchids and firearms, was awakened every morning by pipe organ. He never married...
...begun to be interested in the cinema-bankers, editors, ministers, scientists, socialites, teachers, writers-were mailed 150,000 small blue leaflets, containing ballots. On each ballot were listed 34 species of cinema under six generic heads. Voters were asked to check their favorite kind of cinema, add remarks. Twelve million more such ballots will be distributed, by mail and in theatres, in the next six months. Ten thousand ballots returned last week showed that: 1) educated cinemaddicts are fondest of animated cartoons, particularly Mickey Mouse; 2) cinemaddicts of lower mental rating prefer subdivisions of Drama, like "spiritual struggle," "social...
...shares of its stock, then worth $65, with an agreement to repurchase the stock at $85 March i, 1932. Last week Paramount Publix stock was quoted at $9 per share. Columbia, meanwhile, had sold 10,000 shares, leaving 48,000 shares for Paramount to repurchase. Four million dollars was a large debt last week for Paramount which, like all cinema companies, had been sweating financial blood. But a half-interest in Columbia was worth more than four millions to William Paley. He offered to buy Paramount's half-interest for $5,200,000. Paramount hastened to accept, bought back...