AMERICAN INCOMES
TEN BEST PAID CITIZENS MAE WEST SECOND ON LIST "WASHINGTON, Jan. 0 The United States Congress has listed the following 10 citizens as having received the most money in salaries, bonuses and commissions, excluding investment incomes, in 1935: — William Randolph Hearst, 500,000 dollars; Mao West, 480,833; C. W. Guttzeit, steel executive, 398,808; A. P. Sloan, president of the General Motors Corporation, 374,505; Marlcn© Dietrich, 368,000; Winfield Sheehan, film executive, 344,230; W. F. Knudsen, of General Motors, 325,869; Bing Crosby, 318,907; B. D. Miller, president of Woolworth's, 309,880; and T. J. Watson, president of the International Business Machine, Limited, 296,028. It was revealed that the film actor Stan Laurel, with 156,266 dollars, earned almost twice as much as his partner in comedy, Oliver Hardy. Charles Chaplin's receipts totalled 260,000 dollars, and Shirley Temple's 69,990.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22621, 8 January 1937, Page 10
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135AMERICAN INCOMES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22621, 8 January 1937, Page 10
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