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American consumers are increasingly concerned about the safety of their money in the bank. In a poll taken in July for American Banker newspaper, 36% of the people surveyed said their confidence in banks had fallen. According to Gallup polls, the percentage of Americans who profess a high degree of faith in bankers dropped from 60% in 1979 to 51% last year...
...Lebanese-born Safra is one of the world's most respected moneymen. He built a banking empire by giving meticulous attention to the accounts of wealthy Middle Easterners. What better way for American Express's bank to hit world-class status than to hire a world-class banker? Safra was offered the company's top banking job, and he moved into the post in February. The marriage did not last long. Safra, 52, quit last week...
...Compare training programs within an industry--how is Banker's Trust's program different from Chemical Bank, Inland Steel's from Procter & Gamble...
...that the end of this picture's celebration of the traditional American verities. Struggling on against the ravages of the Great Depression, the elements (a devastating tornado) and the wickedness of the unenlightened (a hypocritical banker, a crooked cotton merchant, even the Ku Klux Klan), Edna is comforted and aided by her two utterly winning children (Yankton Hatten and Gennie James), by a shrewd, gentle, black man (Danny Glover) whom she redeems from rootlessness and petty crime, and by a blind man (John Malkovich) whom she redeems from bitterness. As these archetypes of disenfranchisement assemble in her kitchen...
...background. The same is true of Glover's Moze, who developed out of a black man who worked for Benton's family, but whose magnetic presence is a tribute to the performer. Similarly, Malkovich's blind boarder, imposed on Edna's household by the smarmy banker. He is based on a granduncle of Benton's, who indeed had a recording for the blind of Trent's Last Case, which the director was forbidden to touch when he was a child. But the edgy precision of Malkovich's manner, the very cock...