Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lion, the Vice President of the U. S. A banker, Mr. Dawes has nevertheless allowed his blessing to rest on the McNary-Haugen scheme. A man of great resourcefulness, he whiffed the political air and he smelled a bill dear to "big business." That was the McFadden branch banking bill, with which is involved the fortunes of the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Dawes got the bank-bill men and the farm-bill...
...together. Just how and where is not known. Farm-bill men agreed to let the bank bill pass, bank-bill men agreed to vote for a vote on the farm-bill. And last week the farm bill, which a month ago had been as dead as a pig in a stockyard, commanded the immediate attention of the Senate?with an even chance of passing by a narrow margin. Thus with two neat strokes of strategy, the farmers were in sight of that land of milk and honey which the government had for five years told them was never-never land...
...with Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. & Mrs. W. Averell Harriman. "Everywhere we received excellent treatment-not relatively excellent, but excellent!" said Mr. Hamilton. "Americans are welcomed in Russia and are given every courtesy. . . . The Russians are doing amazing things. . . . "I used to think that the president of the National City Bank and the president of the New York Central Railroad had pretty big jobs, but in Russia one man in the Soviet government manages all the railroads in Russia, another manages all the banks, another manages all the oil companies and so on. It is a kind of state capitalism. Whatever...
...Socialists by Fascists in a tavern brawl near Loipersbach, the well and widely organized Socialist party ordered a "general strike" lasting 15 minutes. From 11:00 a. m. to 11:15 a. m. flower girls would not sell flowers, tram drivers would not drive their trams, many bank clerks banged shut their windows, and all telegraphs, telephones and radios were silent. Only taxicab drivers, irrepressible, defied the general strike order and buzzed back and forth with their fares...
...Bank of Commerce...