Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William's act was nothing less than to authorize a raid by operatives of Scotland Yard* on the five-story building in Moorgate street, near the Bank of England, where 1,000 British and Russian clerks were employed by Arcos, Ltd., the trading organization representing in England all the Russian cooperative societies. Moreover, in this same building is housed the Soviet Trade Delegation, guaranteed diplomatic immunity under the British-Soviet Trade Agreement of 1921. Details of the raid...
...Senate. These are they who weep crocodile tears over the poor workmen robbed of his beer because their bootlegger's bills are exorbitant. It is well that as sane and char eyed a man as MacDonald should have reminded America that the working man gets a bank balance or a Ford in return for his deprivation. His words more than counters balance the drivel with which Judge; Jr., ot al unintentionally lend point to the convictions of Mr. Boreh, Senator Pepper, and the late John L. Sullivan...
...Colleagues. Heading the U. S. delegates as they climbed down from wagon-lits at Geneva last week, was a smart son of Ravenna, Ohio, Henry Mauris Robinson, 58, whose stocky form and pleasant features are best known in Los Angeles, Calif., where he is President of the First National Bank. Europeans know Mr. Robinson, however, as a subordinate member under Charles Gates Dawes of the Dawes Committee (1924) which evolved the Dawes plan...
...League of Nations, brought to Geneva representatives of 46 nations to discuss ways of smoothing international trade and finance. More businessmen and bankers were there than politicians. Frank A. Vanderlip, onetime newspaperman, onetime U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and onetime President of the National City Bank, New York, dressed up the bogey of foreign debts to the U. S. He said that War debts to the U. S. Government total $12,000,000,000, debts of foreign governments and corporations to private U. S. investors $13,000,000,000. The U. S. is lending abroad...
...expects Lewis Eugene Pierson, new president of the Chamber, to give all his time to the organization. He is chairman of the board of the American Exchange-Irving Trust Co., 13th largest bank, in point of deposits, in the world. But because his domestic and foreign banking, industrial and public utility affiliations are so widespread and so intricate, one hour's conference with him as president of the Chamber will bring more positive result than five hours' conference with a less extraordinary executive...