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Continental Bank & Trust Co., just merged with dubiously liquid Straus National, showed cash and Governments of 33 millions against deposits of 44 millions. Its call loans to brokers, long the specialty of this so-called "broker's bank," were ten millions. The statement bore a pledge that the bank would continue its old policy of liquidity...
...famed merchants' war came into the open last year when Gimbel Bros, through large advertisements, attacked the veracity of any statement about their being undersold. Last week a similar war flared up. Macy's advertisements bore the footnote : "It is Macy's policy to endeavor to undersell, by at least 6%, the marked prices of all its competitors who do not sell exclusively for cash. We are not infallible. Others may, on occasion, sell merchandise at prices lower than we do. But only until we find...
...best. Quietly he underplays rich lines (a practice known theatrically as "throwing 'em away"), discloses that he has received offers of help but prefers to let his firm go bankrupt, announces that he is going away because his life, his wife, his children and all young people "bore him a bit." "No, I'm mistaken," he corrects himself. "Infinitely...
...True & Beautiful, Cinemactor Arliss thus confers a dubious benison on U. S. schoolchildren by showing them with what simple tricks a dignitary of the golden age could turn his cavalier indiscretions into a triumph of patriotism fit for Muzzey's Reader. Nonetheless, the film will interest many and bore only those who have rooted objections to sentimentalized history. Good shot : Arliss dancing a minuet with Betsy (Doris Kenyon...
English 1 just misses being one of the best courses given in Harvard College. Most of its value lies in the author studied; half of the lectures at least are interesting. The course, falling as it does into the middle group, often has a tendency to bore the undergraduates, but the text usually saves the student...