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Wendell Willkie was elected chairman of the board of 20th Century-Fox, but said he had no intention of moving to California, was still simply the firm's attorney. He fills without salary the $130,000-a-year job resigned by Joseph M. Schenck after his conviction last year for income tax fraud, because Schenck was "in temporary difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 20, 1942 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...Rulers of the elite are seven top executives of Hollywood's Big Four: Louis B. Mayer and Edgar J. Mannix, of Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer); Paramount's Y. (for Young) Frank Freeman; 20th Century-Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck (now appealing a three-year sentence for income-tax evasion); Warner Bros.' Harry M. and Jack L. Warner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bagdad-on-the-Pacific | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...President Nicholas M. Schenck of Loew's, Inc. in 1934, got friendly with him over office luncheons at which each ate an apple. Three or four meetings and a half-dozen apples later, Schenck asked him a favor. Brother Joseph Schenck (onetime chairman of 20th Century-Fox, now appealing a three-year sentence for income-tax evasion) was gathering a fund to fight "sandbagging" of the movie industry by State legislatures. Somebody had to pick up the money from the industry, deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hollywood Ending | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Willie took this job. In return the movie magnates were very good to Willie Bioff. They sent him and his wife to Europe and South America. Joe Schenck lent him $100,000 to buy an alfalfa farm, gave him $8,000 after a good evening at poker, gave him also a sun cabinet to sweat away his belly and a portrait inscribed "To my friend Willie." It was wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hollywood Ending | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...Manhattan Federal court 58-year-old Joe Schenck, board chairman of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., heard himself sentenced to $20,000 fine, three years in prison, for evading $250,000 in Federal income taxes. His co-defendant and assistant, Joseph Moskowitz, was sentenced to a year and a day and fined $10,000 for "aiding and abetting." Shocked by his sentence, Movieman Schenck recovered to ride out to LaGuardia Field, bid good-by to his friends Norma Shearer and Lady Ashley (Douglas Fairbanks' widow) as they left for Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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