Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, France a Government clerk named Chazarin sued his wife for "connubial fraud," asserted that he had purchased a ticket in the national lottery for $6, won a $3,000 prize, discovered that frugal Mme Chazarin had sold his ticket to a baker...
...board, got to his feet in annual meeting last week and demanded to know what could have impelled a bank to take its stockholders so completely into its confidence. The bank was the 134-year-old Bank of the Manhattan Co. The chairman of its board, John Stewart Baker, great grandson of one of the bank's founders, suavely answered: "The spirit of the times...
...Stewart Baker, who like his father Stephen became president of the bank at the early age of 34, has kept his venerable institution abreast of the times. In the boom days of 1929 the Bank of the Manhattan Co. surrounded itself with affiliates (International Acceptance Bank, New York Title & Mortgage Co., International Manhattan Co. etc.) and started acquisition of a group of banks (County Trust Co. of White Plains, the Corning Trust). Two years ago it turned with the tide, made International Manhattan Co. give up dealing in securities. A year ago it divorced New York Title & Mortgage...
...modernistic bank report with which J. Stewart Baker last week startled his stockholders gave the following information...
...novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where she turned up an astounding old Russian panhandler about whom she wrote her last book, Pull Devil, Pull Baker (TIME, July...