Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Campaign. All parties immediately set their election machinery in motion. All, except the Government party, which can now bank on liberal support from the alarmed business community, were short of money, principally on account of a general election having recently been held (TIME, June...
...Federal Reserve Banks which last week offered a 3½% re-discount rate, in line with the pre-arranged 3½% rate recently set by the Kansas City bank (TlME, Aug. 8; Aug. 15) were...
...Sacco, clean-shaven factory worker and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, mustachioed fish-peddler, were informed last Monday evening that they must die that midnight for the murders- which to the end they denied committing-of a paymaster and guard at South Braintree, Mass., in 1920. Celestino Madeiros, confessed murderer of a bank cashier in Wrentham, Mass., was notified to the same effect. Prisoner Madeiros, in a stupor from overeating at his last meal, preceded his world-famed neighbors to the electric chair...
Soon he saw Irene Baierele, carrying a payroll package from bank to office. With protective gallantry he said to her: "Bow your head and follow me in silence." Arriving at police headquarters they went together to a private room. Here, still gallant, Herr de Bay relieved Fraulein Baierele of her package and vanished, while she waited his return. Later he was discovered in a gambling club, disposing of Fraulein Baierele's package in dishonest fashion. Genuine policemen arrested him, took him to court, removed him, silent, his head bowed, to jail; where for five years he must remain...
...Postoffice Department last week announced the forthcoming establishment of a through air mail service between Manhattan and New Orleans and connecting the five eastern Federal Reserve Bank cities-Boston, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Richmond, Atlanta. The Manhattan-Atlanta service already functions; bids were asked last week for an Atlanta-New Orleans extension by way of Birmingham and Mobile...