Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When George Eastman first worked with cameras, they were cumbersome boxes "almost the size of a soap box." That was in 1878 when he was 24, a bank clerk at Rochester, N. Y. Without leaving his bank job, he applied his mechanical ingenuity to making cameras handy. He succeeded...
...copper. He preferred to deal with another subsoil wealth-the oil that John D. Rockefeller and his partners were selling. In that way he met the late Marcus Daly, western mine-promoter and Montana banker. John D. Ryan in 1901 (when he was 37) helped to organize the Daly Bank and Trust Co. at Butte, Montana, and later became its president. He was then, at the beginning of the century, a tall, well-set-up young executive given to cheerful pugnacity and serious business. The late Henry H. Rogers, Standard Oil partner, recognized the qualities, and persuaded John D. Ryan...
...Bankers Trust was to become, after it added commercial banking to its activities, the sixth largest bank in the U. S. Meanwhile, Mr. Davison was to become a Morgan partner in 1909, after he had further distinguished himself during the panic...
...nearly 75 years, ever since its organization, the New York Clearing House* has issued a weekly statement showing the financial condition of New York member banks; showing, among other things, whether their reserves are above or below legal requirements. Last week it quit giving out statements, ostensibly because the Federal Reserve Bank's reports had made them superfluous. But loud was the clamor. Ill-concealed was the suspicion of many a Wall Streeter that the suppression of the Clearing House statements was prompted by a desire to conceal the banks' lack of sufficient reserves and hence to give...
...check drawn on Bank A and deposited in Bank B is sent to the Clearing House...