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Bald, squat, harried ex-Cinemagnate Joseph M. Schenck, having served a third of his year-and-a-day term for perjury, walked free on parole. Originally sentenced to three years for income-tax evasion (to the tune of $412,000), he won a suspension of that sentence after testifying against union racketeers Willie Bioff and George E. Browne...
...Cinemagnate Nicholas M. Schenck...
Cinemogul Joseph M. Schenck was bundled off to prison to serve a year and a day for perjury instead of three years for income-tax evasion. The three-year sentence given him a year ago was suspended as a reward for his testimony help in sending Laboracketeers Willie Bioff and George E. Browne to the pen for extortion...
...have erred in your People item of last week on Wendell Willkie: 1) by stating that Mr. Willkie is "still" the attorney for 20th Century-Fox; and 2) by the sequence in which it is made to seem that Mr. Willkie stepped into the shoes of Joseph M. Schenck after Mr. Schenck's conviction for income-tax fraud; and 3) by quoting seriously Mr. Willkie's laughing crack that Mr. Schenck was "in temporary difficulties...
Truth is Mr. Willkie was never until now the attorney for 20th Century-Fox; he actually was called in not because of Mr. Schenck's resignation but because of the death of President Sidney Kent...