Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same reason that U. S. bank notes are not Issued "now red, now green, now yellow, now blue, now other colors." Dignity, stability are desired.-ED. No Business...
...Haven, Conn, on Jan. 26, Richard Starr Untermeyer, 20, Yale sophomore, son of Poet-Critic Louis Untermeyer, read a letter from his mother (Poetess Jean Starr Untermeyer) deploring the repeated overdraft of his bank balance and telling him he must improve or leave college-and hanged himself."-TIME...
Died. William E. Knox, 64, onetime (1925) president of the American Bankers' Association; by shooting himself while in the restroom of the Bowery Savings Bank. He went to work for this bank 40 years ago, was elected president in 1922. For several recent months he had been in poor health, nervous; became dejected at the recent arrest of three of his clerks for embezzlement. Stated the bank trustees: "There was nothing whatever in the condition of the bank or his relations to the bank that was not in every way satisfactory." Last month they re-elected him president...
...Mitchell, 73, potent Chicago banker, last week gave over the presidency of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co. to Eugene M. Stevens, previously vice president; himself shifted to the chairmanship of the board of directors. For 43 years (1880-1923) he had been president of the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, where he had started as a messenger. When in 1923 it became the Illinois Merchants Trust Co. he kept on as president...
...friend. They consult him about their pictures, statues, books, love affairs. They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original" on that shore of exotic wreckage and treasure, the Left Bank. That he was born in the U. S. is unimportant except that his inability to subsist there argues his febrility. There is about him much of the hot-house plant which, luxuriating in the warmth and humus of countries long inhabited, would perish in the rigers of a "wilderness...