Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Boston society is the third oldest scientific museum in the U. S.* In 1830, a group of people who liked birds and fish met in Boston at the home of Dr. Walter Channing, obstetrician, to plan a museum. Seven years prior, the Linnean Society of New England had broken up, giving the natural history exhibits which it had collected for nine years to Harvard College, which gladly passed the collection to the new museum...
...able David is an effective, bucolic melodrama, not handled well enough to keep the dialog from slowing it up but finely acted by Richard Cromwell. The story is Joseph Hergesheimer's anecdote of a frustrated young mountaineer's struggle against the enmity of a group of brutal backwoods halfwits. Most of the esthetic credit, belongs to Cameraman Teddy Tetzlaff for his presentation of hill scenery...
...Manley group of banks centering in Georgia collapsed. In one week, 90 institutions closed their doors. There have been more serious troubles in U. S. banking, far more significant troubles , but never more failures in one week in recent banking history...
...Group Banking. Anxiously scanning the casualty list were all U. S. bankers. One reason for their interest was that the question of group banking still looms for dispute, that the troubles of last week furnished two cases which will figure importantly in future arguments on the subject...
...Banks Banks. Another case of a chain breaking was in Arkansas. In that state a potent banking group is A. B. Banks & Co., which controls American Exchange Trust, biggest in the state, and some 50 other banks. Last week virtually all of these had closed...