Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said potent Samuel McRoberts, chairman of the board of the Chatham & Phenix National Bank, in Manhattan last week. Around him, in the Bankers' Club, sat other potent financiers and many a confident layman. They were the committee which is raising $1,500,000 to "Put the Cross in the Skyline"-a cross no less than 36 feet high, "visible for 26½ miles in every direction" including hardbitten Harlem and Hoboken...
...covered volume that he had written. It contained "epigrams" like the ones Charles Archbold of the National Refining Co. writes for the slate which the wooden boy holds up in front of National Refining gasoline stations. Samples of Sir Charles Frederick's wit: "Love is fanned by a bank draft"; "Crossed cheques cheer cross women"; "A leaf began the fall"; "A little blonde is a dangerous thing"; "There is no fool like an old fool -unless it is a young one"; "Some cats have nine wives"; "Chickens should be well dressed...
...check drawn against the Corn Exchange Bank of Manhattan...
Married. George W. Dodge, 83, President of the First National Bank of Shinglehouse, Pa.; to Mrs. Jane F. Swallow, 81, Civil War nurse; in New York City. When paying for the wedding license the bridegroom produced a $20 bill, chuckled, said: "Uncle Sam makes these, but they're no good until I sign them,"* pointed to his signature as President of the Shinglehouse bank. After the ceremony he said: "If you could express how I feel, it would not look well in print-I feel bully...
Married. Ethel J. Elkus, daughter of onetime (1916-19) U. S. Ambassador to Turkey Abram I. Elkus; to Moses Hadas, of Atlanta, Ga.; at Red Bank...