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Strictly Dynamite (RKO) is an uncomplimentary portrait of a radio clown (Jimmy Durante); his partner and mistress (Lupe Velez); his gagwriter (Norman Foster); and the gag-writer's agent. In it Jimmy Durante says '"incredulous" when he means "incredible"; "confederate" when he means "inveterate." The narrative is interrupted at intervals by a telephone repairman who calls up someone he dislikes to say "Nuts...
Joshua Abraham Norton, an English Jew, came to San Francisco from South Africa during the '49 gold rush. In 1853 he and a partner tried to corner all the rice in the city, would have done so had not two rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part...
With a balance of $3,600,000 remaining due on the $9,000,000 J. P. Morgan & Co. loan to Cuba, Partner Thomas S. Lament was in Havana last week. He seemed to set off no fireworks by proposing to the Mendieta Government repayment at the rate of $900,000 each July 1. Fortnight ago all Cuba cheered a Government commission which cracked down on Chase National Bank by advising President Mendieta to repay nothing on Chase's share of $60,000,000 worth of bonds floated in the U. S.-advice as to which the President prudently made...
Kuhn, Loeb Partner George Wallace Bovenizer was elected president of the Investment Bankers Association to fill out the unexpired term of Robert E. Christie Jr. who died while in an airplane flight to Chicago fortnight ago. Ireland-born, Manhattan-educated, Mr. Bovenizer started with Kuhn, Loeb as an office boy in 1897. Big, genial, approachable, he was elected a partner 30 years later, is immensely popular as manager of Kuhn, Loeb's bond and syndicate department...
...interest payments on the Dawes & Young loans continue to be made in Ger many in marks into trustee accounts from which payment to the creditors may ultimately be made. Chancellor Hitler, with the simple directness of supreme demagogery, blamed everything in his Volkischer Beobachter upon a Morgan Partner, sandy-haired Seymour Parker Gilbert who was Agent General for Reparations Payments (1924-30) before he received a partner's desk at No. 23 Wall St. "The former Agent General," cried Herr Hitler's mouthpiece, " bears the bulk of responsibility for foreign creditors' disappointments. . . . Germany's declaring...