Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lies (Paramount). That a talking picture about a man and his mistress could be made both mature and witty is a proposition most cinema critics would deny. Yet this is such a film, directed by Hobart Henley, feelingly played by actors from the legitimate theatre. Claudette Colbert's wide-set eyes, tender voice and Gallic smartness herein make their screen debut. Graciously she suggests the thoroughbred woman who may be kept but who will ultimately be married by any sensible keeper. The corporation lawyer so fortunate as to convert his woman into his wife is played by Walter Huston...
Hollis Pifer remembers his mother taking him to the railing, calling, "Save my child." He remembers being thrown into the arms of a sailor aboard another noisier, dirtier boat, watching wide-eyed as the San Juan sank, while horror-stricken passengers and crew swam about in oily water. "Oh, grandma," said little Hollis next day in San Francisco, "the ship sank...
...printed by William Parkes whose daughter Eleanor later became the mother-in-law of Statesman Patrick Henry. Mr. Parkes described himself as a "Printer, by whom subscriptions are taken . . . at 15 shillings per Ann. And Book Binding is done reasonably, in the best manner." The issues, 7½ in. wide by 12½ in. long, contained but four pages (one sheet folded like letter paper), with two columns on each page...
National banks are now permitted by law to have branches within the corporate limits of their cities, and branches abroad, but are not allowed to have branches out-side of their cities in the U. S. Some state laws, notably California's, permit state-wide branch-banking. But no law, state or Federal, allows for the formation of great banks with branches in more than one state, such as the great banks of Canada and England...
...incompetence or dishonesty in a few high places can ruin a whole branch banking system. If you are a large city banker wishing to expand, you will very likely see that a branch bank can be of more assistance in time of trouble because its risks are spread over wide area; that in branch banking credit is very liquid so that it can find in any one locality as much as may be required, bringing the funds if necessary from afar; that management is much more likely to be competent and honest in a few strong hands than in many...