Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coincident with the return to London of James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Party, a manifesto was issued, last week, declaring that the Party will champion "reform of the Bank of England" as a leading issue in the 1929 election. The "reform" envisions Labor representation on the Bank of England's omnipotent Governing Board...
Such an amateur did overhear, last week, part of a conversation between the "biggest" National City Bank and its Berlin agent. The conversation concerned another famed banking house, Brown Bros., with which National City was linked in a German financing deal. From the eavesdropping amateur there came to Brown Bros, a transcript of the talk. Brown Bros, did not like the National City talk. Puzzled, Brown Bros, asked explanations. National City, astonished, gave them. Still friends, still associates, the two banks resolved upon more cautious, coded communications...
Steel. Neat ingot after neat ingot will have come out of the U. S. steel mills. 48,000,000 times before the year has ended, predicted J. R. Nutt, president of the Union Trust Company of Cleveland, last week, in Trade Winds, his bank's magazine. Automobiles, building and railroad equipment and petroleum industry doings will cause the mills to produce 1,000,000 more ingots than were pressed in 1926, the record year...
...conceived by Nelson Doubleday, smart son of a smart father. As an advertisement, he mails to club members or prospective members a pink sheet of mystery-story news luridly modeled after the gumchewer dailies. But it is mailed to no gumchewers; rather to portly smokers of Corona Coronas−bank presidents, railway magnates, lawyers, Senators, and even a presidential candidate. Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were notoriously addicted to mystery stories; so also Dwight Morrow, Stanley Baldwin, Arthur Hadley, Herbert Hoover...
John Davison Rockefeller III, 22, was elected to the board of directors of a Negro bank...