Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Real estate business in New York, two companies; insurance business in New York City in various fields; insurance business in Boston, sales work, on salary, or salary with commission; in surance consulting work, in Boston; organized charity work in Boston, and Cleveland, Ohio; investment banking in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia; advertising, in New York City; radiator sales, in Boston; special dictating machine, in New York and elsewhere; office work in an investment banking house; commercial banking in New York City; retail merchandising, in $.05, $.10 and $.25 stores, three different companies; general retail merchandising, two companies; general retail merchandising...
...story of Rolland L. Dean who, after graduation from Yale in 1923, became editor and publisher of the Sanford, Fla., Daily Herald. The big man of Sanford was Forrest Lake, mayor for 20 years, president of the most potent local bank, business and social dictator. Editor Dean, naturally enough, was taken into the friendship of Mayor Lake. But in 1926, Editor Dean discovered that Mayor Lake had pocketed the difference between $100 and $95.10 on a number of town bonds which he had sold to Manhattan financiers. He immediately published the story, beginning: "An optimist is a man who sells...
Next morning, the bank of Mayor Lake was found to be not open for business and Mayor Lake was found nowhere in Sanford. Later, the Florida bank examiner's report showed that Mayor Lake's bank owed nearly $1,000,000 and that he had swindled the city of Sanford out of several hundred thousand. A fortnight ago, Mr. Lake aged 62, was sentenced to 14 years of hard labor in the state penitentiary...
...dominator is Amadeo Peter Giannini. He is traveling in Italy, and arrived at Rome, last week; but his home is in San Francisco. Throughout the U. S. he is famed and esteemed (TIME, April 2) as a super-banker who controls with associates, the national Bancitaly Corporation (bank securities) with a capitalization of $150,000,000, and the Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Association (chain of 300 California banks), with resources...
...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, with its efficiently equipped laboratories and hospitals on the west bank of the East River, Manhattan, has contributed to science many a life-saving discovery: curative sera for one of the fatal forms of pneumonia and for epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis; the microbes causing infantile paralysis and yellow fever; the Carrel-Dakin method of treating infected wounds...