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...price on the ground that it allowed no differential between the price of delivered milk and milk sold on a cash-&-carry basis. They leveled their attack on the constitutionality of federal licensing powers under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Their case will be heard by Federal Judge James Herbert Wilkerson who declared last week: ''I will not hesitate to throw out the milk code if it is unconstitutional, arbitrary or unfair...
...persons outside the cinema industry, Zanuck is a new name. Within the industry he is celebrated. William R. Wilkerson's Hollywood Reporter, Talmud of the cinema industry, lavishly called him last week "the greatest piece of motion picture property living today. . . ." Born at Wahoo, Neb. of U. S.-Swiss parentage, he ran away from home at 15, enlisted in the Army, chased Pancho Villa in Mexico, went to Los Angeles penniless after the 1918 Armistice. He worked in a box factory, in a shipyard, in the Baker Iron Works, wrote advertising cards for drug store windows, tried being...
Dean Harry Augustus Bigelow of the University of Chicago Law School was appointed trustee of bankrupt Insull Utility Investments, Inc., after Calvin Fentress and William W. Wheelock had been disqualified by Judge Wilkerson because they were elected by the debenture holder's protective committee, supposedly partial to the Insulls. Dean Bigelow's feelings: "Begin at the bottom and work...
...Ettelson won his long fight to have Calvin Fentress ousted as trustee of bankrupt Insull Utility Investments, Inc. Because Trustee Fentress accepted the appointment at the invitation of bankers who hold $40,000,000 of collateral (for the return of which Insuil Utility Investments creditors are suing), Federal Judge Wilkerson said it was "difficult to see how he could be completely disinterested...
...Received a letter from Federal Judge Wilkerson, nominee for the Circuit Court, explaining that he had never bound himself to accept the prosecutor's recommendation of a light sentence for Scarface Al Capone in return for a plea of guilty, but had permitted withdrawal of that plea because the defense insisted on full acceptance of the prosecutor's recommendation or nothing...