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...receivership was the only logical step. . . ." Thus trouble came last week to a fancy grocery that had purveyed rich & rare foodstuffs to Manhattan's best tables for 112 years. A. M. & C.'s small, lacquered delivery wagons and well-turned out horses were a familiar sight in pre-War Manhattan. Until Prohibition smart households bought much of their whiskey, gin, ales, wines, liqueurs and cigars from Acker, Merrall & Condit. Its wholesale tobacco business was sold to Faber, Coe & Greggs...
...cinema, is based on the potent appeal of a character who humbly takes a prolonged beating from the world and the other characters. The situation of the heroine is socially, morally, economically and emotionally improbable, but genuinely affecting. Director John M. Stahl has elaborated the period detail of pre-War Cincinnati and Manhattan nearly as painstakingly as did Author Hurst. Examples: The high, ugly bandstand and the uniforms of the band playing Sousa's marches-on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati; the three-step stoop before the notion store where the family chairs are drawn on summer evenings; the restfulness...
...present national banks can issue their own currency on $740,000,000 worth of pre-War 2% U. S. bonds. For every $1,000 bond and $50 in gold deposited they can get from the Treasury $950 in their own bank notes. The Glass bill simply authorized national banks to obtain paper money on all U. S. bonds for five years. The only limit was the individual capitalization of the banks. National banks as a whole are capitalized at about $1,600,000,000. National bank notes already in . circulation total slightly more than $600,000,000. Therefore under...
...tradition. And if it were not the first of six Mix talking pictures which Universal is to produce, all preceded by loud publicity, one might suspect that Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. constructed Destry Rides Again with his tongue in his cheek. Containing all the old trappings of silent pre-War Westerns, with a main street, a saloon entitled "The Golden Girl," a stage coach holdup, fast riding accompanied by studio clatter of horses' hoofs, it has the original plot about the hero running for sheriff, who is double-crossed by his supposed friends, with Right flourishing at the finish...
...that Maurice Maschke, G. O. P. boss of Cuyahoga County and Ohio's Republican National Committeeman, controlled managers as well as mayors. Last week, Clevelanders definitely broke Boss Maschke's 16-year rule over City Hall by electing a Democratic mayor for the first time since the pre-War days of Newton Diehl Baker...