Word: packers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1935 wealthy residents of Hollywood and its swank suburbs have been apprehensive of an unapprehended "phantom burglar." Last week in San Francisco the phantom, one Ralph R. Graham, was finally captured, readily identified the looted houses. A few of his victims: Packer George A. Hormel; Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard; Director Frank Capra. Complained the phantom: "All of ... the movie boys and girls whose playthings I swiped . . . except Fanny Brice exaggerated the amount of stuff taken." Estimated total loot...
...Boorde, a member of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, "which speaks for 4,121,000 Southern Baptists," declared: "The Church must be up and about its Father's business." Read to the committee was a long testimonial to the General Welfare Act by Minnesota Packer George A. Hormel, whose firm has net sales of $56,900,000 a year. Excerpt...
...profit-sharing idea, was worked out after Jay Hormel figured that 80% of his Austin plant's income went to employes in wages, 20% to stockholders in dividends. Although last year's $1,031,000 net income would have given workers no extra money under the plan, Packer Hormel thinks his program may inspire efficiencies, hence increase profits...
...lives with his trim, pretty wife, Jane, and baby Bix (after Bix Beiderbecke) in a neat house and garden in London's suburban Chiswick. Before he went to England in 1926, Len Lye had worked as a farm laborer, carpenters' mate, quarry laborer, miner, packer, sheep-shearer and scenario writer for an Australian film company. In England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies. Last month Poet Laura Riding wrote a pamphlet about him. Said she: "There is a work of purification...
Guiding them was Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, a hollow-eyed "cracker," part-time road worker, truck driver and tomato packer, son of a Nazarene preacher. He and his wife used to lodge with Skeegie Cash's parents. He knew the child well, and knew how much money James Bailey Cash, the father, had in the bank-just about $10,000, the sum asked for in ransom. McCall had professed great sympathy for the bereaved parents, had joined the first searching parties. But Mr. Cash's brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found...