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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last April, played for the hold the Italian Crown has upon the Italian People. He urged again the international discussions, military and economic, which he had proposed before. He added this note, which chimed with the Pope's plea: "The Government of Italy and the United States can today advance those ideals of Christianity which of late seem so often to have been obscured" (in Germany and Russia...
...columnists reverted to type. Dorothy Thompson saw the world revolution coming nearer, Westbrook Pegler went yah! at the Communists, General Johnson was for letting Europe blow itself up, and Heywood Broun, hitherto a believer in the democratic front, began preaching pure pacifism. Said Eleanor Roosevelt: "Peace may be bought today at too high a cost in the future." The Communist press made itself silly trying to explain what Russia had done...
Seven years ago the U. S. phonograph and record industry was so sick its own backers almost gave it up for dead. Today, it is not only up and around again; it has fattened into one of the fastest growing businesses in the U. S., with an annual gross of some $36,000,000. Every disc-buying jitterbug knows that records have been booming, but why, and just how much, has been anybody's guess. Last week in a figure-packed survey, FORTUNE put an end to guessing...
...long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year-old Decca concern, with Crosby as its Caruso, stands second only to RCA Victor, with an estimated annual gross...
Russian-born Director Lewis Milestone, a job at $1,750. Today Myron Selznick & Co. (listed under both M and S in the Manhattan Telephone Directory as a concession to unsophisticated clients) represents some 200 performers and directors who include most of Hollywood's big names. For getting their jobs, boosting their salaries and performing a variety of other services from straightening out their household accounts to watching their income taxes, Agent Selznick collects a straight 10% of their earnings, binds them to five-year contracts. In Hollywood round numbers, the Selznick clients' payroll is annually...