Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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, was reversed). The Bank...
...best-known songs which Coward took time to sing in his casual, high-pitched voice; a scene from the Savoy Follies given last summer in London in which Actress Florence Desmond does shrewd imitations of screen celebrities attending a Hollywood party; a comic take-off on any bad lieder singer done by the French comedian Betove. Most popular of the new classical importations are the Beethoven Concertos (First & Fifth) which German Pianist Artur Schnabel has made with the London Symphony...
Sued for Divorce. James John ("Jimmy") Walker, 51, New York's one-time Mayor; by Janet Allen Walker, fortyish, onetime vaudeville singer, daughter of the Chicago Evening American's first city editor; in the Circuit Court of Dade County, Fla. Charge: "Willful" desertion . . . "guilty, obstinate and continued." Newshawks shouted news of the suit up to Mr. Walker's hotel window in Cannes, France, at dawn while he was applying hot irons to his lumbago pains after a night club party. He shrilled down, "I have been fantastically misunderstood. The action is absurd. Shut up!" and slammed...
...Vienna Baron Herbert von Popper, nephew by marriage of Singer Maria Jeritza von Popper, was arrested on a charge of stealing a Viennese socialite's $12,000 necklace...
...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...