Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other death came when one Tony Pitilalia and his son were caught as a span of the Texas & Pacific bridge connecting Melville with the east bank of the Atchafalaya was washed away. The boy was rescued but Mr. Pitilalia was carried off, drowned...
Safe Blowing. The afternoon was lengthening and employes of the Bank of England were preparing to dash home for a spot of tea, when suddenly they beheld the street full of Metropolitan policemen, hastening resolutely toward the Arcos Building. Throwing a cordon about it, they rushed the open door, occupied the whole building in a twinkling; warned screaming typists and frightened clerks not to touch or attempt to destroy any paper, book or document, herded the women into one large room, the men into another...
...million five hundred thousand dollars is a fat, legal oyster. Last week, Dame Justice, "scale in hand," or rather, New York Supreme Court Justice Curtis A. Peters, completed his inspection in Manhattan of $2,500,000 remaining on deposit with the Harriman National Bank as the residue of $6,000,000 collected by famed Eamon de Valera in his heydey, from U. S. sympathizers with "The Irish Republic" of which he claimed to be "President...
...alleviate the Japanese panic (TIME, April 18 et seq.). Since extraordinary legislation seemed requisite, His Imperial Majesty Tenno Hirohito convoked in haste the first Parliament which he has opened since his ascension to the throne (TIME, Jan. 3). Bills were rushed through and signed by the Tenno, authorizing the Bank of Japan to extend swift aid to banks threatened with a "run." Finally, the new Premier, Baron Tanaka, secured the appointment of Junnosuke Inouye (perhaps the most internationally prominent Japanese banker) as Governor of the Bank of Japan...
...further bill passed by the Imperial Parliament authorized the Bank of Japan to lend up to 200,000,000 yen ($99,700,000) in order to restore financial institutions in Formosa which went bankrupt amid the panic...