Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was too much for six Flora businessmen. They organized a syndicate to buy up the mortgage on Crowder's newspaper plant. When Crowder went to the bank with $800 in back payments, he learned that his mortgage had been sold for $8,500 to "my worst enemies." The syndicate, headed by Oilman E. D. Given, promptly slapped a judgment on Crowder's property, and the sheriff tried to seize the press...
...Hyde Park, "I had no feeling that it belonged to me" because it was dominated by the President's iron-willed mother, Sara, who bossed everybody with a benevolent despotism and frequently overruled Eleanor Roosevelt's decisions. Waiting to move into the White House during the bank panic in 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt worried about getting enough money to scrape by. "[Franklin] smiled and said he thought we should be able to manage . . . I began to realize that there were certain things one need not worry about in the White House...
...long and often stormy banking & business career, big, bull-necked old A. P. Giannini had retired officially at least three times. But he had too much energy to sit still; unofficially he went right on working so hard at his Bank of America that friends knew there was only one way he would really retire. A month ago, as he passed his 79th birthday, A.P. confided to a reporter that it would be his last. A.P., who had been right so many times before, was right this time...
From his father-in-law, A.P. inherited a directorship in San Francisco's Columbus Savings & Loan Society. He soon clashed with other directors over their policy of lending only to a favored few, and walked out in a huff to found the Bank of Italy. It became known as a lender to the little...
After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, A.P. saved his business from fire and looters by lugging its assets away in vegetable carts. A few days later, before the other banks could gather their wits, A.P. was open for business in another part of town. In the panic of 1907, the Bank of Italy rode through safely, thanks to Giannini's cautious hoarding of gold. As a horde of settlers poured into California to start ranches, orange groves and vineyards, the Bank of Italy lent them the cash they needed and spread its branches throughout the state. To consolidate...