Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great association of merchants, shipowners, underwriters and ship-insurance brokers which is known throughout the Globe simply as Lloyd's. Last week the new home of this most potent association stood completed, and was opened by the King-Emperor. Majestic it stands in Leadenhall Street, not far from the Bank of England. Spacious, commodious and ultramodern, the new Lloyd's seems as remote as possible from the 17th Century coffee house of one Edward Lloyd under whose hospitable aegis ship owners and men of business came gradually and clannishly to unite their interests and immortalize their innkeeper...
...Fascist financial magazine, Finanza (Rome), authoritatively proposed, last fortnight, that the State should establish a Marriage Bank. Purpose: to loan 10,000 lire ($527) to each laboring bachelor of good standing who may seek such a sum in order to marry, set up housekeeping, beget. Finanza proposed that repayment of the loan be made "automatically by a monthly levy on the husband's wages...
Clad in only a thin bathing suit, Eells walked over the bridge to the Weld Boathouse and, to the utter amazement of crew officials there, plunged right in. A delighted crowd of several hundred students greeted him on the other bank, while the Larz Anderson Bridge was jammed with automobiles of other spectators...
Last week, citizens respectful of the law paid income tax. The Federal Reserve Banks throughout the obedient land arranged ledgers to dodge the accounting strain. In one day, in Manhattan alone, the District Bank turned over $2,000,000,000 without rippling the glassy calm of the money market. Treasury certificates for $550,000,000 were redeemed; $560,000,000 of fresh Government obligations were sold to the prudent. $450,000,000 income tax was collected, and "easy" money "ruled'' because banks had the use of money represented by income tax checks for several days (before return...
Director Curtiz had opened this picture with such simple symbolism as a skinny cat sniffing garbage pails, following with a tale whose luridity dated back to the Black Crook, famed thriller. This one paraded the emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel). Eventually, wildly, wrongly, she is suspected of stealing, is arrested, scared under the third degree, where the spoken dialogue is first heard. To end this whole experimental footage, the actors use the academic, classic embrace...