Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Military Hero. He remains, however, self-confessedly no statesman. The marvel is that Poland, once given the boon of a government which is at least stable, has forged ahead so rapidly in agriculture, industry and commerce. Pertinent is a report recently issued by Financial Advisor to the Bank of Poland Charles Schuveldt Dewey, onetime (1924-27) Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Treasury...
...Philadelphia, the Franklin Fourth Street Bank, and the Philadelphia-Girard National Bank are the largest banking institutions. Last week they announced their intention of merging, to form a bank with resources of $350,000,000. "The consolidation will add largely to the financial prestige of the City and State," explained Chairman of the Executive Committee Joseph Wayne Jr. and President Edward F. Shanbacker...
...newspaper ran on its front page a box headed, "Who Robert Dollar Is." Under this caption were listed his formal titles and offices-President Dollar Steamship Company, Robert Dollar Company, Admiral Oriental Company, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, etc. etc., Director of the American International Corporation, Anglo-London and Paris Bank, San Francisco Savings Bank. Dollar ships, Dollar wood, Dollar banks, Dollar offices in eastern cities the smooth plate-glass windows of which are never molested even when yellow men demonstrate with sabotage the unpopularity of foreign capital. Listed, these things suggest but fail to explain Robert Dollar's position...
General Motors managers acted against the pessimism of the Federal Reserve Bank. Why? Because their annual report for 1927, published last week, was far and , away the most encouraging document which the financial year had so far brought forth. Assets of $1,098,477,577, an increase of $77,583,470 over 1926 earnings of $235,104,826, the largest peacetime result ever achieved by a corporation; total business of $1,269,519,673-these figures stimulated Wall Street speculators and investors everywhere, and they bought 2,431,500 shares of General Motors stock in five and one-half days...
Although the ice lined the Cambridge bank of the river and was piled in floes in the basin around the Weeks Memorial Bridge, a quarter of a mile of open water above the Newell Boat House gave the boats room for a good workout. Attempts have been made during the past week to keep the river open for the daily-passage of boats, but the severe weather has closed up each night the lane opened during...