Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must find shelter", quoth Fish. I could only laugh. Where could one-find shelter on the peak like this We forged on through bank after bank of snow. We had not even received a bid to a "deb" dance, not even a De Pinna advertisement for hours...
...franc appreciated to 25 to the dollar last week, its highest since 1925, a rise of 20% in gold value since November. Premier Poincaré thereupon decided to peg the franc against further rise or decline. By his order the Bank France announced that until further notice it would buy or sell any number of francs at 25 to the dollar. Instantly speculation in the franc ceased. Frenchmen sighed with relief for a further rapid rise would have raised the gold price of French goods so much that French exporters would have been ruined...
...Billions Toted. One James W. Allen, employe of the National City Bank, stepped last week from the obscurity that gilds a great institution's factotums. He celebrated 25 years of service with the bank, and proudly told pressmen of the $30,566,382,435 he has toted through Manhattan streets, between the bank and clearing house...
...Hoehling, the jurors returned to their attic room to balance the scales of justice. Various tales- have leaked out of what happened there. One thing is certain; ten of the jurors accepted the major arguments of the defense without coercion, while two of them, an educated man and a bank clerk who is studying law, doggedly dissented. For most of 19 hours they argued. "You can't tell me old man Doheny is a crook," said one juror. "Didn't these Navy men [onetime Secretary Denby and Captain John K. Robison, who lost the rank of Rear Admiral...
...their Nickel Plate ten years ago. An operating genius, he reorganized, practically rebuilt, the road; made it as efficient a freight carrier as any other line of the country. He is a sales genius too. When the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland contemplated its present 21-story bank and office building, President Bernet got the business of hauling the construction material. That was a triumph. But it lasted briefly, for the late President Alfred Holland Smith of the New York Central heard of the matter. The New York Central had long done considerable business through the Union Trust...