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...drapery, flashing chariots, and tons of Roman cutlery, not to mention several yards of early Christian beards, exciting pagan dancing, and several guileless babes to add the pathetic note, go into the production of a piece that rivals "Ben Hur" in intensity of action and elaborateness. Fredric March, as Marcus Superbus, prefect of Rome, who goes to death in the arena because of his love for Mercia (Elissa Landi), one of the persecuted Christians, and Claudette Colbert, who plays Nero's wife, Poppaea, do very well, but Charles Laughton, as the fat, indolent Nero, gives the picture its life blood...
...fined $10,000, clapped in jail for five years. Two good reasons for hiring Lawyer Steuer were 1) there would probably be Jews on the jury; 2) Lawyer Steuer was recently well advertised as an anti-banker lawyer, when he sent Bank of United States' Banksters Marcus & Singer to jail...
...Harriman National (at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 44th St.) looks across to the northeast corner at a large empty office which once housed the notorious Bank of United States.* Ill omen for Joe Harriman was the news last week that the conviction of Bernard K. Marcus, president, and Saul Singer, vice president, of the Bank of U. S. was affirmed by the New York Court of Appeals. Banksters Marcus & Singer were notified to get ready to serve their three-to-six-year terms in Sing Sing (the conviction of Herbert Singer, young son of Saul Singer...
...years of detailed and painstaking investigation into the affairs of the Bank of the United States in New York, the court has found the president, Bernard Marcus, and the vice-president, Saul Singer, guilty of "willful misapplication of corporate funds." They have been sentenced to a term in Sing-Sing of from three to six years. The evidence given in this inquiry and others of the recent past indicates that the crime is common, and can be met not by more stringent laws, but by more vigorous prosecution of the present statutes...
...particular ways in which the Bank came to be in such unsound condition that it had to be closed in 1930 were devious and complicated. The major "misapplication" of funds was the transfer of debt from the Bank of the United States to other companies personally controlled by Marcus and Singer. This was done largely through a huge loan, eight millions in excess of the legal limit, and through the sale to these affiliates of a block of stock at almost twice its book-value. For the sake of simplicity, only these operations were brought up by the investigators, though...