Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Williamson, quiet son of a clergy man, took his first job in Dayton as teacher of public speech and church music in the Central Reformed Theological Seminary. Soon he was engaged in choral work and for two years he directed simultaneously the music of seven churches. Then in 1920 he founded the Dayton West minster Choir, first made up of factory men and women, but later, because workers could not give the time to satisfy the Williamson ideal, of people who, like himself, wished to devote their lives to church and choral music. Today the choir of the Westminster...
...extraordinary stupidity of the criminals. Hero Bennett, 12, uses to advantage certain metallic mots by Harriet Ford and the late Harvey O'Higgins. "You win the ten thousand dollars reward. What will you do with it?" . . . "I'll count it." Best shot: the kidnapers in Grand Central Station, Manhattan...
Speakeasy (Fox) is a hasty commercial attempt to record the sounds of a great city-a fight at Madison Square Garden, a crowd at the racetrack, trains in the Grand Central Station, Manhattan traffic. To provide a framework for the noise a girl reporter risks worse than death in interviewing a pug who takes his rubdown before his shower, chats happily with his trainer 30 seconds after being knocked down three times and finally counted out in the ring, and who looks as though he wore a size 13 collar. Other inaccuracies mark a picture which as a story seems...
...International Settlement will prove a dangerous competitor of other banks and bond houses. "... The institution to be created," read the statement, "would strictly avoid competition with existing commercial and investment banking institutions and would consider it to be of prime necessity to act in close co-operation with existing central banks of issue. In fact, the bank would coordinate and subordinate its activities in any particular country with and to the policies of the existing central bank of that country. "The new bank would be in no sense a 'super bank' to exercise a dominating influence over existing...
...central banking system may safely permit its facilities to expand unless it is certain of its determination and ability to bring about contraction when circumstances require," argued Mr. Warburg. He blamed "structural defects" of the Federal Reserve System, rather than the System's personnel. Action of the System, he said, cannot be prompt or decisive when it depends upon 120 men in twelve separate boards working with a central board of eight men "who may be wide apart in their views and bewildered by political influence...