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Alan Simpson 1G, erstwhile Oxford Greyhound player, secured the margin of victory for Harvard when he made a try before half time on a pass from Peter Knapp. There was no scoring in the second half...
...Brown Eyes (Paramount) presents a new kind of cinematic criminology and a new Joan Bennett. The criminology revolves around a private detective who found a margin of profits in his employment as a liaison between insurance companies and the underworld, from which the companies were interested in recovering stolen gems to obviate payments to their clients. Morey (Walter Pidgeon) is the private detective of Big Brown Eyes, working with an associate whose crimes include infanticide. The Big Brown Eyes are Eve's (Joan Bennett), who has been transformed from a quiet type into a slangy manicurist whose assured deportment...
...past two years. Sales climbed from $5,800,000 in 1933 to more than $9,000,000 in 1935. But Colonel Phillips was not able to convert much of that gain into profits. They rose only about $123,000 above the $605,000 reported in 1933. Gross margin of profit increased, but overhead and selling expenses nearly doubled, presumably because of 5? soups...
While it was about it, the Federal Reserve Board also slapped the same margin requirements on banks, which have hitherto been free to loan as much on stocks as they saw fit. From his broker a customer could borrow only 45% of the value of his stocks, but from his banker he could borrow possibly 75%. The Reserve Board took great pains to confine its bank margin rules solely to speculative borrowing. If his bank will accommodate him, a man can still pledge his stocks for, say, 70% of their value to buy a farm or build a house. Said...
Only surprise in last week's margin news was the discovery that the regulations apply only to initial extensions of credit, are not continuing requirements. The 55% margin must be met only at the time a loan is made or stocks are bought. If the stocks decline, the loan or brokerage account becomes under-margined, not in the eyes of the law, but from the viewpoint of the anxious banker or broker. The Reserve Board blandly insisted that this had been true all along...