Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might be supposed that such antics would only be accomplished, without loss of face, by a low grade buffoon with small respect for his calling. Such is not the case. They are performed here by Will Rogers and become a typical Rogers product, amiable, offhand, bourgeois, amusing...
Well-paced, well-played. The Silent Witness, adapted from a play of the same name which ran in Manhattan last year, is a high grade stock product, with no undue pretensions. Good shot: Miss Nissen, who made her stage debut as an angel but has since concentrated upon demimondaines, sneering at her lover (Bramwell Fletcher) with such unpleasant petulance that, despite her beauty, spectators can condone his violence...
Senator Glass also proposed that: 1) No bank should hold the securities of corporations not earning 4% on their capital stock for the previous five years, which would eliminate many high-grade bonds from present bank portfolios. 2) National banks of $1,000,000 capital or more could have State-wide branches where State laws permitted such branch banking. 3) National bank shares must have $100 par, to eliminate cheap shares and weak holders. 4) The Federal Reserve rediscount base should be broadened by allowing loans on paper now ineligible where ten or more banks in one district combine...
...Labor asked management jointly to petition Congress for a $1,000,000,000 Federal bond issue to eliminate grade crossings. Management refused...
Passing his examinations with a grade of 84.80, William Hale Thompson, one-time Mayor of Chicago, obtained a Federal license to pilot any freshwater yacht up to 500 tons gross...