Word: hechts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GEORGE J. HECHT...
Babble on the Twentieth Century, the Broadway Limited and other trains where city boosters habitually chant the monotonous boasts of their micropolities, had a new vigor, vim, elan last week. A Manhattan sociologist, George J. Hecht,* had, in flaying New York City for its sociological bumptiousness, mentioned many a modest U. S. city by very name and indicated the excellencies whereby it surpassed New York. Health, social service, education supplanted rich men, big buildings, great corporations in the train talk. It became possible to exuberate concerning...
While the City Sleeps. Because Underworld, crook cinema written by Ben Hecht, made record returns for Paramount a few months ago, hundreds of hideaways, spitting gats, Big Boys, molls, bulls, rods, and mobs have been photographed. Now Lon Chaney as a very plainclothes detective with bunions strides painfully through a convincing picture about bad men and a good girl...
...onetime lotteries. Unkind are pictures of bewhiskered, bejuleped col- onels. As every Louisianan knows, New Orleans can boast many an active, enterprising apostle of sound finance. One such journeyed to Philadelphia last week to address fellow-bankers on bedrock principles of their profession. No dodderer, no lotterer, Rudolf S. Hecht is the able president of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. of New Orleans. German-born Banker Hecht has become so substantial a support of Louisiana industry that the Times-Picayune gratefully hailed him as New Orleans' most constructive citizen. As a reward he won the Times-Picayune trophy. For these...
...Banker Hecht views banking concentration, formation of chain banks, with the utmost alarm. Articulate, he found phrases: "Financial feudalism . . . economis vassalage . . . financial octopus . . . Branch banking is a monster of such frightful mien." He quoted figures: "During the past 25 years, the number of branch banks has practically doubled each five years."* He classified, adroitly: "We still have the nation's financial business carried on by literally 57 varieties of banking institutions (48 different kinds of state banks, national banks, federal joint stock land banks, federal land banks, federal reserve banks, federal intermediate credit banks, postal savings system, mutual savings banks...