Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first item was a 132-page confession from one Celestino Madeiros, Portuguese garage-keeper, laborer, bootlegger, who is now awaiting execution for the Wrentham bank murder. Celestino says that he and certain members of the Morelli gang of Providence (now serving sentences in Atlanta and Leavenworth for stealing from freight cars) are the guilty ones in the Braintree murders, that he is willing to "tell everything," when the trial comes up, if the State will postpone his own execution long enough. Assistant District Attorney Dudley P. Ranney scoffed at this confession of a "murderer to whom penalties for lying mean...
Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Superintendent of Finance under the Articles of Confederation, and founder of the Bank of North America, the first bank to be chartered in the United States...
Alexander Hamilton of New York, first Secretary of the Treasury, who established the credit of the new nation upon a first Secretary of the Treasury, who established the credit of the new nation upon a firm basis, created a new monetary system, and proposed the Bank of the United States...
Hugh McCulloch of Indiana, president of the Bank of Indiana, who became first Comptroller of the Currency, and who put into operation the National Banking System, as Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, and Arthur he carried through successfully the funding of the national debt after the Civil...
Married. Miriam Harriman, daughter of Joseph Wright Harriman, president of the Harriman National Bank, Manhattan; to Boykin Cabell Wright of the famed Virginia "Cabells, lawyer, assistant to Herbert Hoover at the Peace Conference; in St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan...