Word: aba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springs, Ark. was pondering a report on the subject of bank robberies. Bank clearings in the 21 leading U.S. cities last week were up 82% from last year to the highest level since January 1932, but the week's crop of robberies was nearly normal. An ABA committee reported that in the six months ending Feb. 28 there had been 188 bank hold-ups by daylight, 29 night burglaries-an average of nearly nine per week. But the half-year total was down from 340 to 217. Scrupulously the ABA report cautioned that "there were...
...months were down from 126 to 110. Gun play had taken the lives of three bank employees, two spectators, eight peace officers, 24 bandits. Scores had been wounded. Banks had lost a total of $1,257,700 by armed violence. Most of the robberies were in small towns. The ABA committee recommended modern protective devices, deplored the $20,000,000 annual bill which U.S. banks pay for various kinds of crookery insurance, urged support of the Ashurst bill to control the domestic arms traffic and penalize robbers who make attacks on Federal Reserve members...
...American Bankers Association is not used to meeting without plenty of social entertainment. Last week nearly 2.500 ABA-men assembled in Chicago, held their usual dinner without speeches, visited the Fair if they were so inclined, found time for some golf. Then, more soberly and attentively than usual, they attended their speechmaking sessions, held in the great gilded ballroom of the Hotel Stevens. They gazed thoughtfully at an enormous shimmering blue tapestry behind the speaker's rostrum, diligently considering the problems of U. S. banking, model 1933. Good reason had they for devoting themselves to work rather than play...
...Circus" by Vilmos Novak Aba and the "Whirlwind" by Tibor Polya are both outstanding pictures. The latter is an excellent scene of a village marketplace caught in a whirlwind. The brilliant colored figures run to shelter as the wind catches the canvas roofs of their market-booths...