Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town of his birth when the Yale Club of Boston dedicates its new memorial tablet to Elihu Yale. It has been discovered in recent years that Elihu Yale was born in Boston and the tablet in his honor, will be placed on the north side of the Suffolk Bank Building in Scollay Square, a short distance from the site of his birth...
Hankow. Strangely enough th Nationalists who had ousted the British from their concession ai Hankow found this valuable property a white elephant. Local Chinese merchants who habitually dealt through the British banks discovered their contact and means of trading with the outside world cut off. Manufacture, commerce, shipping were at a standstill. The few Britons who remained had barricaded themselves in a steel bank vault. Soon blotchy hysterical posters appeared: "Death to the British slaves who are trying tc strangle us by stopping our commerce...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation; Jesse Lasky, Vice-President of Famous Players; Harry M. Warner, President of Warner Brothers Picture Corporation; Cecil B. DeMille, of the Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Sidney R. Kent, General Manager of Famous Players; and A. H. Glannini, President of the East River National Bank of New York...
...recurrence of political and financial anarchy. The marines stayed from 1912 until 1924 and their presence helped maintain order, although it caused resentment in Central America and evoked the cry of "dollar imperialism." In 1919 Nicaragua was able to buy back her railway and in 1924 her bank which had been controlled by the New York bankers pending the stabilization of Nicaragua's currency...
...author, greeted this confection; Playwright Edwin Self is advertising manager for the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio. All praise to Dayton had he written a play, but has he? Junkman Ernest John (corpulent Sydney Greenstreet) has informal chats with God; radiates sunshine; feels led to rob a bank to help an aged invalid lady; with approval of the author does so. Old Sal (Emma Dunn) after rampaging all she can to offset the drivel, climaxes with a nerve-wrecking unexpected shriek?as Ernest John, in a large chair, slowly dies...