Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beef Trust. In 1928, two big men, Frank McHale and Bowman ("Bo") Elder journeyed to the American Legion convention in San Antonio. (McHale weighs 290 Ibs., Elder 310 Ibs.) Frank McHale was a Logansport lawyer who had played mighty football for Michigan (where his scrawny little brother in Sigma Chi, Frank Murphy, hero-worshipped him), and Bo Elder was the Legion's national treasurer. To these two it was important that they get the handsome, prematurely white-haired young dean of the University of Indiana Law School elected national commander of the Legion. They did so by shrewdly lining...
...September 19 California will put into effect its "Jackie Coogan Law,'' by which the courts will set aside half the cinema earnings of minors in a trust fund protected from their parents. Approved last week by Superior Judge Emmett H. Wilson was the first contract written to conform with the act, between Universal Pictures and 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. Cinemactress Durbin's earnings in the next five years will total...
Oddest quirk in the saga of Jimmy-in-Hollywood is that under another name Mr. Roosevelt might well make more money. When Cinemagnate Goldwyn hired him last year, just as Trust Buster Thurman Arnold had poised his ax over the cinema industry, Hollywood feared that if he were paid too much he would be resented as a last-minute Pocahontas. Jimmy Roosevelt has stayed as far away from the antitrust prosecutions as possible, although he was named as a defendant in the Goldwyn suit. He has served as Goldwyn representative on the board of United Artists and as Mr. Goldwyn...
Potash politics come easy to Europe's masters of power politics. Europe's Cartel is about two-thirds Potash Syndicate of Germany, some French, less Polish. Its bankers are British. Spain, an independent producer, thoroughly undercut the trust's prices in 1933 and 1934. But in the spring of 1935 the Syndicate, thanks to German control of Spain's oldest potash company, made a tentative deal with Spain. Immediately the world price snapped back from its trade...
...years ago when he was in his twenties he began his career by writing ponderous, respectable tomes on Germany's growing steel industry. Later he worked in the very unerudite Manhattan brokerage shop of art-collecting Jules Bache. By 1908 he was back in Germany with its Metal Trust (whose presiding genius, Dr. Alfred Merton, was one of the German sponsors of Dictator Franco's rebellion...