Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Farm Board, composed of the Secretary of Agriculture and a member from each of the twelve U. S. Land Bank districts, appointed by the President. This Board was to administer the loan fund and help co-operative marketing associations to cope with surplus crops...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, told the Boy Scouts of America that they could use 90,000 acres of his land near Red Bank, N. J., for a summer camp...
...London the Right Hon. Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, Bart., P. C., M. P., chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. and director of many another industrial concern, last week received the British gentlemen of the press. In Manhattan a few hours later Albert Henry Wiggin, chairman of the Chase National Bank and of the Chase Securities Corp. and director of many a banking, railroad, public utility and industrial concern received U. S. reporters. Both men had the same announcement to deliver-the creation of the Finance Company of Great Britain & America Ltd. with ?2,040,000 (about $10,000,000) capital...
...Most Hon. the Marquess of Reading, G. C. B., K. C. B. O., onetime Viceroy of India, a director of the National Provincial Bank Ltd., and of the Midland Bank...
...near a hayrick where it was shady. Alice, who was sometimes a little brash in her behavior, wanted someone to tell her a story. So Mr. Dodgson began it, while the sleepy children listened. "Alice," he said, "was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' " Mr. Dodgson told them how Alice...