Word: bank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gold. At once miners, merchants, gamblers, and all the male and female floating population of the Nevada mining camps made a rush for the spot. In three months arose one of those mushroom mining towns, where every other house is a saloon, and every saloon has a faro bank; where "shooting scrapes" average five, and "hands up" twenty, a week, and the lowest wages paid are $5 a day. Of course, I went at once to Bodie...
...City Bank of Jersey City closed its doors yesterday, the president, cashier and book-beeper of the institution having dishonestly appropriated about $50,000 of its funds to their...
...Laughlin's lecture today in Political Economy 2, will be in regard to the French indemnity and the process by which it was paid, illustrative of the exchanges. Among other lectures to be given in this course is one on the monetary history during the Bank of England restriction, discussing the currency question as operating at that time, and also one giving a sketch of the tariff legislation of England, showing the process by which, under Gladstone's managing, England passed from a tariff to a free trade regime. This lecture will be of use in comparing the legislation...
...City Bank of Rochester, N. Y., suspended yesterday, owing to the misappropriation of $333,000 of its funds by its president...
...managers of the French Union General Bank have been sentenced to five years' imprisonment each and to pay a fine of 3000 francs...