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...Deal merely age-old attempt to check dwindling Income by drafts on Capital. Age-old result should be due fairly soon now, and will doubtless be styled the New Mother-Hubbardism...
This week the legislative committee was scheduled to begin investigating. Probable result: vindication, deserved or whitewashed, of the Earle administration. Possible results: 1) the Supreme Court may declare one or more of the steamrollered Earle bills unconstitutional; 2) impeachment proceedings may be started against some members of the Supreme Court, who Senator Guffey last week said "debased themselves and their offices by accepting the equivalent of cash from the House of Morgan...
...Secretary of the Interior Ickes: "If the reactionaries in the Democratic Party want a real test of President Roosevelt's strength with the people, I suggest that they continue to work for a situation which will result in the people being given opportunity to vote directly on ... President Roosevelt and his policies. There can hardly be any doubt what the answer of the people would be."† ¶ Senator Pittman of Nevada: "I have inherent prejudices against a third term, but between Ickes and a third term, I'll take a third term...
...industry was developing between producers and exhibitors. Such producers as Paramount got into exhibition; such exhibitors as Loew's got into production. With ever-increasing clamor during recent years, the chief trade organization of independent exhibitors, Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, has claimed that the result has been monopolization of the cinema industry to such an extent that independents could barely exist (TIME, June 7, 1937). The Department of Justice investigated, agreed. Hence last week's suit in Manhattan's Federal Court against eight of the major cinema companies,* 25 of their affiliates...
...same territories and since their output is enough to keep all theatres comfortably full, they can and do exchange pictures and actors freely, meanwhile deny such privileges to independents except upon hard terms. 2) That they insist on block-booking, full-line forcing, high rentals. 3) That as a result, independents are being driven out of business, new competitors are effectively forestalled; independent theatres cannot exercise free choice of films; independent producers find it virtually impossible to market their films; new capital investment is discouraged; theatre patrons in any given community must take whatever films are handed to them; "there...