Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stay at home, the vagabond whose activity is restricted to the north bank of the Charles, there are only two musical events of especial importance; the monthly performances of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Sanders Theatre, and the concert of the Pierian Sodality. The latter takes place this evening at 8.15 in Brattle Hall...
...century wonder, the Flatiron Building, and the new $31,000,000 Equitable Building in Manhattan; the Union Station on Capitol Hill at Washington, the Union Trust Building of Cleveland. He built all of Marshall Field's stores in Chicago, the Field Museum, the Railway Exchange, the Continental & Commercial Bank. He built the Selfridge stores in London. He put up the first Chicago skyscraper, for Gumman Wrigley, and the Straus skyscraper. During the War he was given an army of 70,000 men and, accountable only to President Wilson, built powder plants in West Virginia and ran them...
...world, the Book-Cadillac. The world's tallest structures include : Stories Feet Eiffel Tower 1000 Woolworth Bldg., N. Y. C 50 792 Metropolitan Life, N. Y. C 50 700 Singer Bldg., N. Y. C 41 612 Municipal Bldg., N. Y. C 24 580 Bankers Trust, (tallest bank) N. Y. C 39 539 Pure Oil Bldg., (formely "Jewelers Chicago Bldg.") Chicago 40 523 Straus Bldg., 32 475 Chicago Tribune Bldg 36 462 Wrigley Bldg., Chicago...
Died. William Henry Porter, 65, "systematizing genius" of J. P. Morgan. & Co. and the director of its open market operations; in Brooklyn, N. Y., of heart disease, while walking with his wife. At 25 he was the youngest cashier in a major U. S. bank (Chase National). It was he who stimulated the trade acceptance, or bill, market in the U. S., whereby a merchant with time paper on his hands could easily discount it at a bank. He was taken into Morgan partnership in 1911, simultaneously with Thomas William Lamont...
English-speaking residents of Honolulu and adjacent Pacific centres lately marveled, puzzled, then chuckled over an advertisement in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (evening: circulation, 16,000). On other pages were the conventional displays prescribed by U. S. copy-artists - tobacco broadsides, department store revelations, bank announcements. But up in the corner of one page was the advertisement of Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker, who was either the shrewdest of merchants or blessed with the good offices of the most quick-witted of advertising advisers. Beside a delicate spider-scrabble of Japanese characters stood Musa-Shiya himself, fretted forth in blackest...