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...Benjamin Bloom landed in El Salvador in 1890 and went into banking. His steadiest business was the financing of coffee crops. When planters dropped in at his office in San Salvador's Banco Occidental, he usually put them at ease with a couple of smoking-car stories. Then he would bury his face in an oversized telephone mouthpiece that masked his lips and prevented his visitors from hearing his conversation with his clerk about their financial standing...
...Calle de la Vega the night watchman banged his stick on the sidewalk, clanked a ring of keys, then unlocked the door for a party of four plainclothesmen. The visitors walked up the stairs to the apartment of Don Bernardo Bernardez, 63, respected executive of the Banco Iberico and well-known elder of Spain's monarchist movement...
Across the Border. Three months ago, with the investigation beginning to simmer, Beteta had a visit from Anibal de Iturbide, manager of the Banco de Comercio. Without his knowledge, Iturbide said, his chief of exchange had been enriching the bank by illegal silver sales...
...Bank. Maese was arrested (and released on bail). At the customhouse in Ciudad Juarez, 62 inspectors were fired, 25 other officials suspended, and 76 employees either fined or transferred. The Banco de Comercio was fined 200,000 pesos...
When the smuggling story broke in Mexico City, Beteta was unexpectedly faced with the possibility of a financial panic, touched off by a run on the Banco de Comercio. Said the pro-Communist El Popular: "Every patriotic depositor should withdraw all funds at once." Beteta' asked editors and financial writers to go easy on the bank...