Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cincinnati, situated on the north bank of the huge Ohio River and opposite the mouth of the small Licking River that runs north through Kentucky,* was for decades the commercial gateway from the North to the South. Traders, some Jews, from Cincinnati were the first businessmen to settle in many a southern hamlet, village and town. So thriving was Cincinnati that when private developers would not build a railroad to Chattanooga, Tenn., the city itself provided funds and built the Cincinnati Southern Railway, 336 miles long, the only first class railroad owned by a U. S. municipality. Cincinnati...
...soon as the post, telephone and telegraph could carry the information of the deposits in big U. S. banks as of the end of the year, the American Banker compiled and published the figures. They revealed that the banks had grown bigger by $1,407,755,877. On Dec. 31, 1926 their deposits had been $16,794,203,008. One year later they were $18,191,958,885. Significant was the fact that San Francisco (Golden Gate City) had the fourth largest bank, the Bank of Italy. Manhattan, of course, had the leaders...
...Bank of Italy, San Francisco...
...Federal Reserve Bank city, Atlanta, Dallas, Richmond where there are Federal Reserve Banks had no place in the American Bankers list...
President Loomis, with Mr. Stotesbury and the much older George Fisher Baker, had written letters to stockholders asking voting proxies against Mr. Loree's possible control of the road. The New York Central, the First National Bank of Manhattan and J. P. Morgan & Co. were of course their backlogs. But even that array assured no victory. Mr. Loree's men had made house-to-house solicitations among stockholders...