Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emory W. Clark, president of the First National Bank of Detroit...
Today is the first of the great spring Saturdays that sound the clarion call to all the University. It summons a hundred Harvard athletes to court field, or river, and it is safe to say that five thousand Harvard non-combatants are called to the stands and the river-bank, or at least to the late night extras and the Sunday sporting pages...
With an air of crying "Boo!" Sir William revealed that Scotland Yard had just rounded up a gang of Irish smugglers of arms, in London, and had traced banknotes found in their possession to "a Russian bank in this country...
When the House received this revelation with equanimity, Sir William nursed his suckling Scare and took it before a Conservative rally at Leamington, where he cried: "We are asked to put up with the subsidizing of crime by a Russian bank in this country. . . . There is a direct chain from the Russian bank to Communist agitators in all the great cities of this land. ... I have the most complete evidence...
Both men, before they became great in the world's oil industry, kept business accounts. Meyer at 22 (in 1886) found work as bookkeeper in the old Standard Oil's Boston office. Soon he became statistician. Deterding at 22 quit work as Chief Clerk in an Amsterdam bank to adventure in the Dutch East Indies, where he sold among a multitude of general items kerosene lamps. The East Indians who used those lamps filled them with Standard oil shipped in square cans from the U. S. Sumatra, Batavia, Borneo, Java and the rest of the archipelago were...