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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...