Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three famed vetoes of the charter of the Bank of the United States, by Presidents Madison, Jackson, Tyler. These were referred to in planks of the Democratic party...
...domestic history of John Tyler's administration, Daniel Webster eulogized his substitute measure for the Bank, called "the Exchequer" as "second" only in promise to the Constitution itself...
...seek to discredit certain criticisms made by me on Abraham Lincoln by attacking and underrating another President, John Tyler, who had, of course, nothing to do with the case. Your comment shows that you have not kept up with the historical advance, for scholars are now agreed that the Bank was never an issue in 1840 and that Tyler was not a Democrat adopted by the Whigs but that he had as good a standing in the Whig party as any other man - the Whig party being a composite party. Moreover, Tyler's efforts for peace in 1861 exclude...
Again, there were the less temperamental problems of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Freeman. Mr. Freeman's lawyer said that his client, a banker, had been compelled to resign from his vice-presidency in the National Bank of the Republic and the executive vice-presidency of the National Republic Co. due to the publicity attendant upon his wife's divorce suit. "She's always spent beyond his means and now she's ruined him," said the attorney. "Absurd," said counsel for the lady. "Now that he has $30,000 a year, he wants to throw her aside." This...
...even break," but the placid life of Boston journalism is destroyed. And more serious than this, the University, though not, of course, to blame for the questionable conduct of the Traveler, American, and Transcript is put into the position of the well-meaning but somewhat unpractical bank offered as a horrible example above...