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...thought it was funny. One woman complained of the irreverence to the manager: "My God, it's disgraceful." Responsible for the revival of The Sheik in New York was President Harry Brandt of New York's Independent Theatre Owners Association, Inc., who last month announced that a quorum of Hollywood's top-ranking stars were "poison at the box office." Chortled Mr. Brandt, whose picture was doing almost as lively a trade as Mr. Jensen's just down the avenue: "It took a star like Valentino who has been dead twelve years to bring people...
...railroad finance instead of in trains. The issue will presumably be settled May 10 when C. & O. plans to meet again. By that time the court may have given Guaranty undisputed right to vote the Chesapeake Corp. stock, but Robert Young hopes to have an undisputed C. &.O. quorum in proxies for 51% of its common stock...
Last January Robert Young forced Messrs. Bradley and Murphy out of their Alleghany jobs. But he failed to get them out of Chesapeake. When he tried, Messrs. Bradley and Murphy simply refused to attend the directors meeting, thus preventing a quorum and any action. Then, in his capacity as president, Mr. Bradley called a special meeting of Chesapeake Corp. stockholders with the avowed purpose of shuffling the directorate contrary to Owner Young's wishes, who feared losing his control thereby...
...make news. Last fortnight, she was the central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list of 300 included, as well as two Supreme Court Justices, half-a-dozen Ambassadors and a quorum of top-ranking Republicans, a good handful of anti-Roosevelt Democrats like Montana's Wheeler, Missouri's Clark and Rhode Island's Gerry. Washington political wiseacres promptly concluded that Mr. Vandenberg was launching his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1940 according to the festive precedent...
...farmers in the district for an immediate cash consideration of about $1 apiece. But George Berry has been a potent figure in the Roosevelt Administration and when he filed complaints against the TVA for damages on his marble properties, Directors Morgan and Lilienthal, meeting according to custom as a quorum in Chairman Morgan's absence, agreed to have the value of the claims adjudicated by a special "conciliator" instead of by a condemnation commission. They capitulated when Chairman Morgan, who asserted that the claims represented a bald attempt to "defraud" the Government, got Secretary Ickes to refuse the loan...