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...screen, Actor Garfield, whose first name is really Jules, is undistinguished-looking, slow-spoken and, like many other prosperous young actors, an amateur left-wing politician. His present seven-year Hollywood contract contains a clause permitting him to leave on 60 days' notice whenever he wants to act on Broadway, a privilege of which he has not yet availed himself. His next picture will be Juarez, with Bette Davis and Paul Muni...
...Castings: William Powell, absent from the screen for almost a year; in Return of the Thin Man, his first job under a new seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...must save many years before he can hope to buy even enough food to last him on what is usually a ten or twelve-day open-ocean trip. Chief feature of a French sentence to Guiana is that it means just half of what it says. A seven-year sentence is really for 14 years-seven years at hard labor, seven years as a libéré (freedman) confined to French Guiana. Any sentence for more than seven years is just a nice name for a life term, since the prisoner is then automatically condemned forever to the penal...
...three brands-English Ovals, Oxford Blues and Cambridge-the first a blend and the others Turkish. Mr. Ellis promptly launched Marlboro, a 20? cigaret which, with the benefit of an ivory tip, has sold a solid 500,000,000 a year since. Then he lured McKitterick back from a seven-year vacation in Europe and the two quietly began buying Philip Morris stock. In 1931 they had control, got into the 10? field with a cigaret called Paul Jones. But they found themselves making little from Marlboro because a 20? cigaret has only a limited sale, making less from Paul...
...Cracked down on the great meat packing house of Swift & Co. Charging "unfair and unjustly discriminatory" methods in the sale and distribution of its products, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace issued a cease and desist order. Secretary Wallace's action followed a seven-year look-see into such complaints as that Swift made agreements with numerous concerns to buy meat only from it, that Swift deliberately misled customers about competitors' policies, that Swift manipulated prices in search of a meat monopoly...