Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Evelyn Pemberton Murray, Secretary of the General Postoffice of Great Britain, in London, replied, "Good morning, Mr. Gifford. Yes, I can hear you perfectly. Can you hear me?" Reassured, Sir Evelyn said, "Splendid!" Mr. Gifford read a formal statement. There had been a hot race among U. S. bank presidents, actresses, businessmen, newspapers to be first to talk to London. Who competed and who won, his company refused to say, regarding such information as confidential despite newsgatherers' arguments that the distinction of talking to London on the first day would be "a great ad" for anyone. It became...
...Spanish-speaking peoples) created by the purchase of Grand Central Palace and the Park-Lexington Building. Manhattan. Spanish and American businessmen backers are headed by Col. Thomas H. Birch, onetime Minister to Portugal and President of the Trust Co. of North America. Consulates, schools, commercial exhibits, offices and a bank are to be located on the property...
...Fred G. Bonfils who had lately cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That was who he was, Fred G. Bonfils; $800,000; Napoleon's cousin. Money! Power! Ambition! He could and would show the money to Bartender Tammen in the bank vault. Soon Tammen was back in Denver with some of the Corsican's boodle to see what he could do. His first few projects collapsed. Then the old Denver Post, a fly-by-night sheet, offered itself for sale at $12,500. Bartender Tammen talked $25,000 more...
Married. Joan Kaufman, daughter of Louis Graveraet Kaufman, President of Chatham Phenix National Bank, Manhattan; to George Drexel Biddle, son of Craig Biddle (finance), of Philadelphia; in Manhattan. Flower girls wore frocks copied from Lawrence's portrait of "Pinkie" (TIME...
...father of smart Kenneth O'Brien* and eight other children, studied the selling credits of 34 industries and found them good risk. The result is the $31,000,000 American Rediscount Corn., which was to start business in Manhattan last week, after the method of the Federal Reserve banks. Lawyer O'Brien is chairman of the company's advisory committee; Comptroller Lawrence H. Hendricks of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is the president...