Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slowly she paced around a fire blazing upon the bank of the esteemed Godavari River, at Gangapur, India. Priests invoked in her behalf the whole pantheon of Hindu deities. At the conclusion of the ceremony she approached the potent High Priest Jagadgur Shankarcharva, touched his feet, received his blessing, and walked away no longer Nancy Ann Miller but the Hindu Maiden Devi Sharmista...
Died. Clifton H. Dwinnell, 55, financier, director of the Hood Rubber Co., president since 1926 of the First National Bank of Boston; in Boston...
...Taves on Land Value," Professor Bur bank, Harvard...
...shorts who sold 350,000 shares could not borrow any stocks with which to make delivery to the purchasers at 2:15 P.M. Every craning neck in customers' rooms, every visitor in the packed galleries of the Stock Exchange, knew that General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., National Bank of Pittsburgh and the famed Fisher Brothers of Detroit owned between them almost all of the 1,155,400 shares of Radio Corporation stock outstanding. Shorts had nevertheless risked selling one third of this total down to $85¼ a share. The night before it had closed...
Died. Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, 65, son of the late John Wanamaker, urbane president of the John Wanamaker Stores, patron of art, aviation, exploration, director of many large corporations, president of the First Penny Savings Bank of Philadelphia, one of the most heavily insured men in the world ($7,500,000); of uremia; in Atlantic City, N. J. Two hundred prominent men of England, France, Japan, and the U. S. were invited to act as honorary pallbearers. Among the messages and cables received by the family was one from King George...