Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller trial (TIME, Sept. 13 et seq.) had crept from screaming front-page headlines into the technical seclusion of inner- page stories long before its third week had begun. But as the third week ended, it again leaped back into prominence with revelations of peripatetic Liberty bonds and burned bank records. Important developments...
...With the Government's case against Colonel Miller practically complete, Mr. Buckner then began his onslaught on onetime (1921-24) U.S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty. He traced a $22,163.81 check of John T. King's to a deposit in the Midland National Bank of Washington Court House, Ohio, on Oct. 13, 1921. It happens that Harry M. Daugherty's brother, Mai S. Daugherty, is president of this bank; that the records for Oct. 13 and 14, 1921, have disappeared; that the accounts of Harry M. Daugherty, Mai S. Daugherty, and Jesse Smith are missing...
...next day Mai S. Daugherty, who had been in the courtroom since the trial opened, suddenly became probably the Government's most important witness. He merely stated that his brother Harry had burned the missing bank records. Max D. Steuer, defense attorney, questioned brother Mai a second time...
Question: "Did your brother [Harry] say anything about how or why he destroyed the bank records...
Quick. Suddenly the screech of brakes was heard far up the hill. One Hedley V. Quick, an employe of the Anglo-American Bank of Mexico City, was slithering down the grade, en route to Cuernavaca. So steep is the hill that Mr. Quick could not stop when commanded to halt by the bandits. Two shots ripped through his side curtains. Then, resourceful, Mr. Quick took his foot from the brake, plunged it down upon the gas. His car, bounding, lurching, sped down the hill. Half a mile farther on he met First-Secretary Arthur Bliss Lane...