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...irreverent young employes stealthily called him Pale Billy (purely a trick of transposition, for he likes hot countries, bright sunlight, is usually healthily bronzed), in three months he tightened CBS's contracts with its affiliates, gathered 22 more stations into his network, refused to sell CBS to Paramount Publix Corp. for $1,500,000. Nine months later he sold Paramount Publix a half interest for $5,000,000, within three years bought the half interest back...
Died. George Edward Akerson, 48, bulky, breezy onetime pressagent and secretary to Herbert Hoover who quit his White House post in 1931 to take a $30,000-per-year vice-presidency in Paramount Publix Corp.; two hours after receipt of a holiday telegram from the ex-President; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...when a hoofer named Russell Markert rounded up 16 girls to dance at the Skouras Brothers' Missouri Theatre in St. Louis. He called them the Missouri Rockets. When Broadway clamored for the troupe, Markert changed their name to the American Rockets and took them East. They danced in Publix theatres, in the Greenwich Village Follies. The late Producer Samuel ('Roxy") Rothafel signed them up for his Roxy Theatre as the Roxyettes. When Roxy went to the Rockefeller Center Music Hall in 1932, the Roxyettes went with him. When he left two years later, they became the Rockettes...
...basis of material gathered at such hearings as those of Paramount Publix, Celotex Co., Kreuger & Toll, the SEC wants to extend its power to: 1) assure selection of independent trustees in reorganizations; 2) vest in the SEC extraordinary authority over solicitations of proxies and over deposits and assets of protective committees; 3) allow the SEC to intervene in an advisory capacity when reorganizations are under the jurisdiction of the courts as in 776 cases. Some of the powers asked by the Commission are incorporated in bills introduced by Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley and Tennessee's Representative...
...came back from his first retirement to handle finances of Paramount Publix. He slashed costs, reduced rentals, made executives turn in expense accounts. But he cut off so many heads and stepped on so many toes that in 1933 he resigned, reputedly over the question of John Hertz authority versus Adolph Zukor authority. The second retirement also failed to take, and in January 1934 he became a Lehman partner...