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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bona fides of some municipal bonds held by the National Bank of Topeka. The U. S. District Attorney got busy, requested permission of State Treasurer Tom Boyd to check them against bonds in the State vaults. The Treasurer refused. The District Attorney went to Governor Alfred M. Landon, got access to the vaults. In 40 minutes Federal investigators found $329,000 of forged bonds held as security for deposits of State funds in Kansas banks-found them lying in the vault not more than a yard from the bona fide original bonds of which they were copies, owned...
...York savings bankers were quick to point out that these were no emergency agencies but permanent central banks for which they have drummed since 1925. But State Banking Superintendent Broderick bluntly observed: "The mutual savings banks . . . for the first time in their history have access to the resources of the Federal Government." With his banks in an impregnable position, he promised promptly to remove all withdrawal restrictions in force since March. Withdrawal limit is now $250 per week with exceptions for emergencies including vacations...
...first floor of No. 23 Wall St., shut off by a glass partition from the banking floor and an area where clerks toil incessantly with calculating machines. By elevator they can go to the floor above where a long corridor decorated with large photographs of partners gives access to private offices where they can go to dictate to secretaries. (The Elder Morgan would tolerate no female stenographers but that day is long past.) Every morning the partners, including any visiting from Philadelphia, hold a meeting to discuss and plan their work. None of them is assigned permanently to any special...
...regarded by the raiders as the ringleader. A search for him began as well as an investigation to find out how the 'leggers-who had taken every precaution for secrecy save that of muffling the alcohol fumes, which could be detected half a mile away-had got access to the old Belmont place...
...police stood in corridors. Teachers surged through the streets by thousands, singing and shouting. The biggest group, headed by John M. Fewkes, advanced upon Chicago Title & Trust Co. which they knew holds in escrow $10,000,000 for tax payments of property owners. Leader Fewkes and a committee gained access to the bank's President Holman Pettibone. Meanwhile the teachers were trying to swarm upstairs past the guards. A policeman flourished his night stick. A teacher named Ted Farrington ducked, took a resounding blow on the neck instead of the head. He toppled and the crowd surged...