Word: banke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...play for time and endeavor to save as much from the wreck as possible." First reports that the decree might cost as much as 80% of their business appeared to be exaggerated. They could probably still make good money if they submitted to orders. The U.S.-owned National City Bank and "Boston Bank" (as Argentines call the Argentine branch of Boston's First National) prepared to get along with Perón on his terms. Said the Boston Bank's Vice President W. Latimer Gray: "We've been in business 30 years there, and expect to stay...
...bail from $20,000 to $1,000,000 because he was about to flee the country in a four-motored C-54 he had just bought. Furthermore, said the Government, Rubinstein was dumping his securities, and probably had $5,000,000 in cash. He had opened a big bank account in Mexico...
...Charges. But Chosen stockholders did not approve of Rubinstein's doings. Before the New York Supreme Court, they charged that Serge had kept part of the cash from the Japanese deal, put it into the Manhattan bank account of one Serge Manuel de Rovello. Cried one irate stockholder: "The history of this company is the history of a racket probably without precedent. . . . There can be no doubt that the disposal of our property was conceived in iniquity and born in sin." Cried another: "Let us never forget . . . the manipulations, financial jugglery, or what some would term jiggery-pokery...
Arthur W. McCain, 52, for 32 years a commercial and foreign banker (chiefly financing commercial-aviation manufacturing and transport), became president of Chase National Bank, succeeding H. Donald Campbell, who became vice chairman of the board. Now the world's second-biggest bank will be run by a triumvirate which includes Board Chairman Winthrop W. Aldrich...
...drowned by the tumult of Washington's inflation wrangles, the voice of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles might often have been heard quietly protesting the "monetization of the public debt." He did not like the way a large proportion of Treasury borrowing had been financed by bank credit, which added to the supply of money, instead of by individuals, which contracted the supply...