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...Transamerica should take the lead in nation-wide branchbanking. Last year the annual report said hopefully: "It is now generally conceded that the trend of public opinion is increasingly favorable to the extension of branchbanking." But Mr. Walker's letter of last week reported: "There is no apparent likelihood that nation-wide branchbanking will be authorized by law in the near future." He then confirmed the recent rumor that Transamerica will sell its controlling interest in banks, chief of which are Bank of America, New York, and Bank of America. California. During the week stockholders were assured that...
Quickly reporters began calling this assemblage the Wiggin Committee. What the Wiggin Committee was supposed to be doing was investigating, under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlement, 1) Germany's credit needs and 2) the likelihood of changing Germany's present short-term credits into long-term ones. On the first point, the Committee approached agreement that what Germany needed was renewal for six months of 5,000,000,000 marks ($1,187,500,000) which she already owed her creditor nations. It was soon seen that there was little likelihood of the committee doing much...
...figure register well. There are even moments vhen, in spite of her terrific struggle with her material, it seems probable that she can act, though for proof the U. S. will have to wait for her next picture. Donald Ogden Stewart wrote this one, which seems, and in all likelihood is, a rejected draft of his famed Laughter. The framework of the two is identical-a young woman marries a rich man for his money and then, deciding she cannot stand it, goes back to an early sweetheart. But here apparently a production conference was called, the keynote of which...
Officially Alfonso and his faithful confidant the Duke of Miranda were in London to arrange for the entrance of Alfonso's third son, Prince Juan, in Britain's Annapolis: the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. Correspondents suspected that they were actually there to sound out British officialdom on the likelihood of the Spanish Royal family being able to settle there...
...game" of Adolf Hitler, as some German correspondents reported last week, is to tone down his Gang, moderate his policies and try to get one or more Fascists into the next German Cabinet. There is danger, indeed great likelihood, that many disgruntled Fascist gangsters-toughs who like direct action-will hire out to the Communist gangs. Such men see no sense in the only action Leader Hitler took last week against President Hindenburg's gag decree: he hired lawyers, had them get ready to bring suit on the ground that the gag is unconstitutional...