Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...street car conductor, "boss" of Chi- cago Republicanism, banker, U. S. Senator. The higher he rose, the fatter he grew and the more crooked became his methods. In 1912 the Senate ejected him for having obtained his seat by bribery. In 1914 his La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank crashed; seven years later he was put in jail because the Government found his banking schemes fraudulent. In 1922 he saw two boys* that he had trained in the political arts thrown out of power in Chicago...
...about that William Lorimer had returned quietly to Chicago from the Republic of Colombia where he had proposed to develop that nation's resources with his Colombia-American Syndicate. Incidentally, he hoped to regain his own fortunes. His venture had failed. Perhaps word of his La Salle Street Bank had been whispered in Colombia, and the wary Latin-Americans had demanded cash in advance...
...John Pierpont Morgan; Albert H. Wiggin, President, Chase National Bank, Manhattan; Melvin A. Traylor, President, First National Bank, Chicago; John J. Mitchell, President, Illinois Merchants Trust Co., Chicago; Thomas N. Perkins, Member, Reparations Commission; Gates W. McGarrah, Chairman, Mechanics and Metals National Bank, Manhattan...
Other Nations: Montagu Collet Norman, Governor, Bank of England;* Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President, German Reichsbank;† Nicola Pavoncelli, Chairman, Bank of Italy;** and the presidents of the state banks of the following countries with a large contingent of financiers from each: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland...
Yesterday many of us were glad to outdraw our bank accounts to get our quota of tickets to the Princeton game at $5 apiece. We would have liked to get twice as many an twice the price, if necessary. Thousands will swarm from the byways and hedges to see two and twenty players fight over a little leather ball. They will expect great things. A single mistake may decide the game. One error may mean defeat. But what of it, our friend across the water asks. There is yet some joy in life. What remains of life does...