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...Literary Digest was a strange looking creation. Due to a compositors' strike, the magazine used typewriters to prepare its columns of editorial matter, photographed the final copy, made line-cuts from the photographs and went to press on schedule. The appearance of the magazine was ragged because the right-hand edge of the typewritten copy could not be evenly aligned. The Literary Digest, at this time, was offering a prize of $100,000 to anybody who would figure out a way to make typewritten copy square up like printed matter...
...most pressing problem. Last week in Hollywood they found a solution: to represent them as labor arbitrator, the eight major companies included in the Producers Association (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, United Artists, Universal and Columbia) elected Benjamin Bertram Kahane, for the last year right-hand man to Columbia's President Harry Kohn. Bald, hook-nosed Ben Kahane, 45, is a onetime Chicago lawyer who became general counsel for the old Orpheum Circuit, and got into cinema when the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation was formed in 1928, worked up to become president...
Against three operators of a restaurant "trade association" and four officers of waiters' and cafeteria workers' unions, Prosecutor Dewey's chunky right-hand man, William B. Herlands, argued a total of 182 charges of conspiracy, extortion and attempted extortion. By stink-bombings, strikes and threats of strikes, he asserted, they had forced the terrorized proprietors of The Hollywood, French Casino, Brass Rail, Jack Dempsey's, St. Regis, Lindy's and many a lesser restaurant and cafeteria to join their "association," pay tribute of some $2,000,000 per year. Not seriously disputing the picture drawn...
Postmaster General & Democratic Chairman James A. Farley has been readying to leave Washington for months, and last week his right-hand man, Democratic Executive Director Emil Hurja, announced that he would soon be leaving, too. Famed as a wizard of political analysis after calling the turn in the 1932 and 1934 election's. Statistician Hurja was outdone by his boss last November when he guessed only 376 electoral votes for Roosevelt, against "General" Farley's bull's-eye 523. But that was no more reason for one to leave than for the other to stay. Their Washington...
Penrod (Billy Mauch) is chief of a private G-man organization, Sam (Harry Watson) his trusty right-hand man. At first Penrod's life is complicated only by the trouble he is always getting into by his scraps with mean, 'fraid-cat Rodney Bitts (Jackie Morrow), the son of his dad's boss. Sent upstairs supperless, Penrod gets out of a whipping by swearing in his dad as a junior G-man. When a gang of crooks holds up the town bank and shoots a colored woman, mother of Penrod's friend and fellow...