Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently legalized death sentence for proven corruption in a Soviet official was applied, last week, for the first time in the case of Director Poliakov of the State Bank Grain Department and an assistant, M. Telesnin. Their crime: granting concessions to private businessmen in return for fat bribes...
...inauguration occurred at Ahwaz, on the bank of the Karum river, opposite Moin's Garden...
...interests. None of them had ever displayed the energy or ability which characterized the operations of Myron Taylor. The consolidations which he effected, his ability to push his companies into prosperity, attracted the attention of financial bigwigs, especially the attention of George Fisher Baker, Chairman of the First National Bank of Manhattan. Banker Baker, who with the first John P. Morgan and the late Judge Gary constituted the first U. S. steel triumvirate, made Mr. Taylor a director of his bank...
...century and a half ago, the merchants who sat in the Tontine Coffee House from whose windows they could see the harbor and their ships. Anyone who saw him walking down Broad Street would realize immediately that such dignity and serene confidence could belong only to a bank policeman or its director. The picture of Myron Taylor that was published in news-sheets last week seemed to belong between the two older faces that appeared at the same time. Supported by the crisp ruff of a wing tipped collar, severe, shrewd, plain and kindly, it was a face easily recognized...
...provinces of Canada, in the greater and lesser Antilles, in nine regions of South America, in Manhattan, Paris and Barcelona-the Royal Bank of Canada operates 884 branch offices. General Manager C. E. Neill was able to state last week than the bank's assets are $894,663,903, the largest ever reported by a Canadian bank and one of the largest ever reported. Bank headquarters are in Montreal. The president of the board of directors is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt...