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...last March Bank of America's feud with the Comptroller had cooled sufficiently for a compromise. Its terms: 1) the bank's dividend policy to remain unchanged; 2) establishment of a $6,900,000 reserve for possible writedowns; 3) reappraisal of its property holdings; 4) changes in its bond and bookkeeping practices; 5) a $30,000,000 increase in its capital by next June. To finance the capital increase, RFC offered a helping hand, for A. P. has no feud with Jesse Jones...
...Otherwise it is just a Jack Benny radio program minus Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny), and Benny addicts should find it just as entertaining. It has Rochester (Eddie Ander son), Benny's gravel-voiced, colored stooge; Carmichael (the polar bear); the disembodied voice of Fred Allen (whose mock feud with Benny weekly wows their camp followers); tunes, dances, a lot of fancy showmanship, girls and gags. People with a taste for deeper humor are cautioned that unlike the radio, the picture cannot be tuned off at will...
...third city, after many a postponement a new daily was born: George Fort Milton's evening Tribune. In Washington the Tribune was news because it brought Publisher Milton, an ardent New Dealer, back from unwilling retirement. In Chattanooga the Tribune was news because it revived a newspaper feud of some 16 years' standing...
...vaudeville has for generations connected with Celts. Somehow Thomas Mitchell was snared into playing the lead as an Irish cop. Priscilla Lane is his daughter whose elopement with her father's Scawttish supplanter on the police force (Dennis Morgan) complicates further the picture's leitmotif-the family feud between the Scotch and the Irish...
...antics are as funny today as when they were written. High spots are still Willie's drastic expedients to get pocket money to woo heartless, flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with his snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning of Seventeen are the watchful restraint and troubled tact with which Willie's parents (Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker) try to make him work...