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Word: bankes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houston's 700 Texan patriots could play a tune on a fife; one could beat a drum. They pooled their resources and sounded like a regimental band as Houston fell upon the Mexican Santa Anna on the bank of the San Jacinto. Texan vengeance for the massacre of the Alamo was satisfied; Texan independence was guaranteed; Sam Houston returned to lay out the city which bears his name, to become President of Texas, U. S. Senator when Texas entered the Union. It was an important battle hymn the fifer played over and over again at San Jacinto. Its lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: The Democracy | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Bandits robbed a Kansas City Bank; much shooting in the streets; five wounded, one fatally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: K. C. Chronology | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...inaccurate to say that any one security issue started the break last week. But if one is to be set up as a black example it is the Bank of Italy. On the San Francisco and Los Angeles exchanges Bank of Italy stock broke 160 points-from 284½ to 125. Related issues acted likewise. Bancitaly dropped 86 points-195 to 109; Bank of America 120 points -270 to 150; United Security 80 points-245 to 165. In New York the drops in these issues were as great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Stock Market Break | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...Germany and Belgium to study economics, international law and politics. Upon completion of his studies he entered the Emperor's department of Agriculture and Commerce. But he soon left government service for business. He is president of the Toyo Iron Mfg. Co., a director of the Teikoku Commercial Bank, and an adviser to Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Mail Steamship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Largest Offering | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...each class of society a fixed amount, according to scale" provides more of course, for the bank president than for the street scavenger, but the impossibility of gauging just how much more vitiates the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not Red | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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