Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: You have overlooked New Orleans! I read with interest the article "In Office Buildings," under your PROGRESS column† issue of Nov. 28. In your footnote you give a list of cities other than New York which have equipped these new elevators in office buildings. The Canal Bank & Trust Company, New Orleans, has just completed its 18-story bank and office building, in which the Otis Elevator Co. has installed eleven elevators of the type described by you in your article. Just to keep the records straight. H. B. CAPLAN...
Such was the reasoning perceived last week behind President Coolidge's appointment of Col. Noble Brandon Judah, Chicago lawyer, soldier, bank director, to the Cuban post. Like the selection of Morgan-partner Dwight Whitney Morrow for the recent vacancy in Mexico, Mr. Judah's selection, over the heads of State Department "career men," was an effort to discover and apply special aptitude for a special necessity...
...from France to testify in the Fall-Sinclair trial, Harry M. Blackmer, one of the main Sinclair vice presidents, was pronounced in contempt of court by Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons, Mr. Sinclair's latest judge. Last fortnight a U. S. Marshall called at a Washington bank and attached for the U. S. $100,000 in Liberty Bonds deposited there in Mr. Blackmer's name. Mr. Blackmer's attorney promised to fight the U. S. for return of this price of silence by testing the constitutionality of the so-called Walsh Law under which the confiscation was made...
...American Locomotive Co.; to succeed the late Frederick F. Fitzpatrick. He was the company's president for five months in 1926; has been its chairman since 1926; is also chairman of the American Car & Foundry Co.; is a director of General Motors Corporation and of the Federal Reserve Bank...
Last week President Hurie, energetic, drew his $3,000 from the Clarksville savings bank and paid a needy contractor. Then he caught a train, made connections, arrived in Manhattan. At Union Theological Seminary he found his old teachers, old friends, told them his needs, and they in his name, asked gifts to the College of the Ozarks...