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Banker Dickson (Walter Huston), central figure of American Madness (Columbia) is a noble money lender. He regards honor as an asset more valuable than stocks or bonds and his idealistic viewpoint only indirectly damages his financial standing. Devoted to the interests of his depositors, he breaks an engagement with his wife (Kay Johnson) to attend to a business deal in Philadelphia. This enables her to visit the apartment of his head cashier (Gavin Gordon), who has been dipping his fingers in the till...
...International bankers reversed the financial rule of the centuries and the policy became one of the lender seeking the borrower instead of the borrower seeking the lender. . . . The bankers had just one thought and that was profits. . . . The banker with money pouring in began to regard himself as a superman and soon in his egotism became convinced the Lord had endowed him with a peculiar prescience and ability which raised him into a royally created class, far more blessed by a discriminating and wise Creator. ... It is little to be wondered at if the ordinary investor approached in some trepidation...
...banker or merchant had lent $20,000 to Lenox, Mass, (pop.: 2,895) in its hour of need last week, few persons far from that fashionable little summer resort would have heard about it. But because the lender was a plain newspaper reporter, member of a traditionally underpaid and improvident profession, he became news everywhere. He was Walter Everett Lewis, 64, for 25 years Lenox correspondent of the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle...
After all only $32,000,000 was loaned to Germany last week, at 6½%. England, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden and the U. S. participated with Goodwill Lender France. Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. head the loaning consortium. Jewish éclat is furnished notably by Mendelssohn & Co. of Amsterdam, N. M. Rothschild & Sons...
...November from J. P. Morgan & Co. France was able to stop that (TIME, Dec. 30). I have information that as soon as this conference is over you will turn for your $100,000,000 to Ivar Kreuger [famed tycoon-director of the Swedish Match Trust, lender of millions to many a hard-up government]." M. Tardieu finished with a flat declaration that France would not give Germany the benefits of the Young Plan unless the German Government promises not to issue bonds liable to hurt the sale of Reparations Bonds...