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...golf balls were sold in the U. S. at a retail price of $9 a doz., wholesale of $5.60. To help finance its services, most of which are offered free, PGA sells golf balls through its members. The Golf Ball Manufacturers' Association includes many top-rank U. S. makers of sporting goods* and, according to the FTC, its members own or control almost every U. S. golf ball factory. Each member company in the association makes a number of balls stamped PGA which are usually of higher quality than balls bearing other names. In its complaint the FTC charged...
Eight of Red Russia's top-rank fighting men stood on trial last week in a small, bare courtroom before an array of judges including Marshal Semion Mikhailovich Budenny and Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich, president of the Military Colegium of the Soviet Supreme Court. The eight...
Died. Jean Harlow, 26, platinum-blonde cinemactress; of cerebral edema (swelling of the brain), following acute uremia; in Hollywood's Good Samaritan Hospital. Christened Harlean Carpentier, reared in Kansas City, Jean Harlow became with Hell's Angels (1930), a top-rank star and the cinema's No. 1 symbol of sex appeal. She held her rank with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, Blonde Bombshell, China Seas, Wife Versus Secretary, Libeled Lady, all made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her first husband, with whom she eloped at 16, was Chicago Broker Charles McGrew, whom she divorced before she went...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York was the first top-rank executive of the nation to call a venereal disease by its name. Said he: "Once the facts become generally known, the humanitarian appeal of syphilis will be fully as great, or even greater than that presented by any communicable disease...
...purple path of Congressman Adolph Joseph Sabath's committee investigating bondholders' reorganizations led to Philadelphia for a second time, Philadelphia Co. investors packed the Federal Building to hear what the Philadelphia Inquirer called "one of the most sensational exposes of alleged practices in Philadelphia's top-rank financial world within memory of the present generation." When the Sabath committee scored, the investors cheered. When the sweating bankers offered explanations, they booed and waved empty pocketbooks. Sample revelations...