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...life Schwitters made a modest living painting realistic portraits aimed at pleasing the sitter. In 1919 he branched away from the Dadaists, founded his own movement, which he called Merz. The word had no meaning, but came from a fragment of a piece of newsprint bearing the phrase Commerz-und Privatbank that he had pasted on one of his collages. "Merz," he wrote later, "stands for freedom from all fetters, for the sake of artistic creation...
...Paramount, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Pathe, Radio Corp., George E. Quigley of Warner Bros. They settled down to debate their problems amicably until they decide whether to make an agreement or start a trade war. Will Hays, on the motion of Dr. Curt Sobernheim, general manager of the Commerz-und Privat-Bank of Berlin, was elected chairman. Said Chairman Hays (Presbyterian elder) : "Who can say . . . that the talking picture may not be the mightiest of all agencies for world peace...
Another German bank, the Commerz und Privat Bank of Hamburg and Berlin, through the Chase Securities Corp. offers a $20,000,000 loan...
...more docile citizenry, in Germany, has regarded with a kind of pride the growth of their own banks. At present the Berliner Handels, the Disconto Bank, the Dresdener Bank, the Darmstadter (Danat) Bank and the Deutsche Bank,* and to a lesser extent the Commerz & Privat Bank and the Mitteldeutsche Kredit Bank, may be said to control German industry...
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