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Word: bankerâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...smaller towns the scheme of life is not complete without the local unit banker???men like Gallic Harris of Franklin, Ky. Benign-faced, with a smile for everyone, an optimist in all emergencies, family and business, adviser to every patron and friend, trustee of every church or hospital loan, executor when men died ?dedicating their souls to God and their estates to the banker! He befriended a poor foreign peddler with a pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bank Chains | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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