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Michigan's white-crowned James Couzens, richest U. S. Senator, sat himself down last week and signed two checks totaling $30,423.39. One he stuck in an envelope and mailed to the receiver of the defunct First National Bank of Detroit. The other he dispatched to the receiver of equally defunct Guardian National Bank of Commerce. Then he smilingly informed his wife, Margaret Manning Couzens, that he had paid in full assessments against her as a stockholder in the holding companies for the two closed banks. He also informed the Press...
...Manhattan or Chicago where the crises were passed months before President Roosevelt's national moratorium. But in three of the biggest cities of the land banks still splash the front pages with considerable regularity.* In Philadelphia the news is the prosecution or conviction of officers in several small defunct institutions. In Detroit it is the desperate effort to find out why its biggest banks were (and still are) shut tight.† In Cleveland it is the muckraking of Ohio's State Senate bank investigating committee. While liquidators began mailing the first payoff checks to some 400,000 depositors...
...which annually gives a series of summer concerts in a football stadium donated by Oilman William Grove Skelly, determined to present Aïda. Carlo Edwards of the Metropolitan Opera, vacationing with his wife's relatives at Sand Springs, was asked to direct. Tenor Forrest Lamont of the defunct Chicago Opera (TIME, July 4, 1932) was called to sing Radames. He was the only non-Oklahoman in the cast which included a girls' chorus supplied by a high school. At the first of two performances, 6,000 Oklahomans paid $1.50 each...
...promoter of sporting events, and was such a fixture in barber shops that it was called "The Barber's Bible." It continued to make a feature of pictures of big-bosomed, broad-hipped females, but such fare lacked spice for post-War readers. A year ago the defunct Gazette was auctioned for $545 to a lawyer who refused to reveal his client...
...promoter of sporting events, and was such a fixture in barber shops that it was called "The Barber's Bible." It continued to make a feature of pictures of big-bosomed, broad-hipped females, but such fare lacked spice for post-Var readers. A year ago the defunct Gazette was auctioned for $545 to a lawyer who refused to reveal his client...