Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factors made prudent and possible the act of M. le President: 1) The Bank of France now holds sufficient gold or foreign securities to redeem every centime of the national paper currency, apt to be presented, at its present value of 25 francs to the dollar; 2) So great is the reviving confidence of French peasants in securities payable in francs that they are now buying and stuffing them into stockings at such a rate that urban French capitalists are left with a legitimate surplus of capital for investment abroad. A further prop to French financial stability...
Elected. General John Joseph Pershing and Edwin B. Parker, umpire of the U. S.-Germany Mixed Claims Commission; to the board of directors of the Riggs National Bank of Washington, D. C. This is the first business position General Pershing has ever accepted...
Elected. Robert Livingston Clarkson, 36, vice chairman of the board of directors, to be president of the Chase National Bank of Manhattan...
Fish experts at the Museum of Comparative Zoology are still, puzzled over the strange fish which they have just received. It was caught off Brown's bank, 60 miles southwest of Nova Scotia by fishermen on the schooner Wanderer, and because it could not be identified it was packed in ice and shipped to Dr. Thomas Barbour '06, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Died. Alan Harriman, 29, only son of Joseph Wright Harriman, president of the Harriman National Bank; at Great Neck, Long Island, from injuries received when his car overturned...