Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total of over $200,000,000, give the three parties a community of political interest in case of war on the Pacific; doubtless, in case of emergency, this tie would play its diplomatic role in preventing a conflict. It is by such co-operation between the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank that great political ends are achieved...
...Great banks have been considering reducing wages. Suggesting in the current issue of the American Bankers Association Journal that banks cut interest rates on deposits, President Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank of New York (greatest bank in the U. S.; deposits: $1,275,041,000) writes: "While it is unpleasant to think of disturbing relations with depositors, it is even more so to think of reducing the pay of the bank staffs...
Knowing well that the U. S. State Department scrutinizes all foreign loans offered to the U. S. public by U. S. banks, and knowing that such scrutiny would scarcely ensure success to a loan for a country which is not recognized by the U. S., the Soviet carried out its transaction privately and directly with U. S. citizens, by mail. To assure U. S. buyers, however, it was necessary to get some U. S. banks to act as agents, to pay out dollars for interest and amortization. The Soviet engaged, among other banks, the Chase National Bank of New York...
Married. Edward Coleman Delafield, 50, president of the Bank of America, director of many corporations; to Miss Clelia C. Benjamin, amateur actress, of Manhattan; in Greenwich, Conn...
...interesting to note in relation to the problem of meting out justice to an offender, and in connection with the sentiment so easily aroused by any significant electrocution, that the banks of Texas have found it effective and expedient to put a premium on summary punishment for bank robbers. Five thousand dollars for a dead bank robber, but not a cent for a live one! The arrangement in Texas seems effective and popular, but distinctly pragmatical...