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...been freed by kidnappers who had held him 17 days in a New York apartment. A few hours earlier a black bag containing $50,000 had mysteriously disappeared from the check room of a hotel near Broadway. Kidnappee Rosenthal, who prior to his disappearance had lost heavily on the stockmarket, said he had been dragged out of a taxicab by three men, later said a beautiful brunette had delivered him into the hands of his abductors. Negotiations were carried on in the personal columns of the New York Times. The kidnappers got the $50,000 from Mr. Rosenthal's mother...
...were found guilty, liable to seven years in prison, $1,000 fine. They were remanded to jail without bail. The deal for which the culprits were held responsible was selected from a host of other shady practices by which the bank's officers, panic-stricken by the 1929 stockmarket crash, guided the institution to ruin. It was a game of financial ring- around-a-rosy, played as follows: Bankus Corp. and City Financial Corp., subsidiaries of the Bank of U. S., had a book value of $4,800,000 worth of real estate equities, but owed the parent organization...
Vienna's sensation-of-the-week was news that her Wirtschaftpolizei ("business police") were hunting Banker Fritz Ehrenfest, a former director of Kreditan-stalt. When they find him they expect to prove that he lost $15.000,000 of Kreditanstalt's funds in Manhattan's punctured stockmarket...
Although the legal path for the Standard of New York-Vacuum deal is now clear, owing to recent changes in stockmarket valuations, it will probably not go through on the original terms announced when the two companies decided to merge 16 months ago. The exchange ratio was to have been the equivalent of three Standard for one Vacuum...
Like most cinemas dealing with finance, this one reveals no great understanding of Wall Street methods, maintains an unnecessarily pop-eyed attitude toward the interesting but not incomprehensible maneuvers of stockmarket operators. On the other hand, it conveys the clear impression of a character who, if not much like the late Hetty Green, resembles somewhat the world's conception of her. Actress May Robson noticed how Hetty Green's mouth curved down in a hard line under a snub nose, how her eyes sparkled merrily under tufted, threatening eyebrows. An expert in makeup, she made her own features...