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...general manager. Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor have lost control of Paramount to John Hertz, taxi tycoon, and Theatre Owner Sam Katz of Chicago. Last week Paramount's pro duction manager, Ben Schulberg, resigned. Joseph Kennedy, onetime board chairman of Pathe, was reported planning to pur chase First National studios from Warner Brothers for a new company, with Mr. Schulberg in charge of production. Harry Cohn became president of Columbia in place of Joseph Brandt, planned to pay some of his scenarists and actors picture royalties. A new cooperative producing organization, the Screen Guild, headed by President Michael Charles Levee...
House Cat. The State Department's policy of requesting bankers to submit their proposed foreign loans for diplomatic inspection began in 1922. Its pur pose then was to thumbscrew European nations into funding their War debts to the U. S. by denying them fresh credits until they had done so. When all funding was completed, the State Department continued to act as a fiscal censor with the idea of bridging the abyss between Big Business and U. S. foreign policy. While it contended that it did not pass on the security or merits of foreign loans, its method of reporting...
...week. Mrs. Long had read an article, Your Host in the White House by Jefferson Chase, in the smartchart's March issue which ridiculed the sorry lack of ceremony at White House functions. Said Author Chase: "There is not a humble Negro lodge-brother who could not give pur Government cards and aces and beat it every time on dignified ceremonial." Said Housekeeper Long: "Jefferson Chase should be run out of town. . . . You would be the first to object if your taxes were increased in order to increase the White House appropriation to allow of lavish entertainments...
...Carnegie Corp.). Many a guest was too old to have known, as a school boy, Father Sill's influence. But all joined, as the dinner announcement stated: In grateful recognition of twenty-five years of devoted service to his ideals: simplicity of life, self-sacrifice and directness of pur- pose...
Credit Unions. Co-operative savings and loan societies run for the benefit of members who pool their savings by pur- chase of stock and by direct deposits are known as credit unions. About 1,020 of them in the U. S. do a $62,000,000-per-year business. Their great sponsors are Edward Albert Filene. Boston merchant, and his 20th Century Fund...