Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most potent banker in France, M. Emile Moreau, has never held a post in a private bank. Last week the mere report that he had threatened to resign as Governor of the Bank of France caused consternation among politicians and appeared to have swayed the iron judgment of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare himself. The question at issue was whether to set up the now virtually stabilized paper franc on a gold basis. To this problem M. Moreau brings strictly practical knowledge acquired during an entire lifetime spent in the Treasury and allied services, latterly as Director General of the State...
Boats placidly puffing from bank to bank, street cars clanging across cities are too slow for man's impatience. He must blast tunnels under peaceful rivers, bore subways through the solid earth that his transit may be measured in swift seconds. Men willingly give up sunshine and fresh air to work in the dark, dank underground; they will not willingly give up their lives. Last week Thomas J. Curtis, International President of the Tunnel and Subway Constructors Union, General Manager of the Building and Allied Trades Compensation Bureau, told the Welfare Council of Manhattan of the dangers...
...Brokers' loans of $5,000,000,000 don't mean anything. In fact, I don't believe $10,000,000,000* would make much difference. Bank deposits and resources have increased enormously and these funds must be put to work one way or another. The stock market affords a good outlet...
When Mr. Durant went back to General Motors (1916) he insisted that Mr. Chrysler be vice-president. There was a quarrel over policy; Mr. Chrysler resigned. John North Willys figuratively clutched at him to work down Willys-Overland's $46,000,000 bank debt. Within less than a year the debt was down...
...while it lasts this intercontinental hopping. Two heroes who initiated the game have folded their wings and perched in prominent executive positions. An only semi-successful aviatrix has achieved silks and satins and the acclaim of America's girl glorifier. Others wear the badges of army-rank, possess the bank-accounts of Correspondence School successes, and appear weekly in the suburban newsreel...