Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sept. 28, 1925, this was the only bank in the U. S. with deposits of more than $500,000,000 (TIME...
Died. James R. Smith, president of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, director of the bankrupt Bankers' Trust Co. and Farmers & Traders Bank of Atlanta; at Atlanta. Bewildered by the bankruptcies, he pressed the trigger of a loaded shotgun with his toe, drove all the gun with his toe, drove the pellets into his abdomen...
...Morse was sentenced to serve 15 years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta for false entries in the books of the National Bank of America. Mrs. Morse sold her furs, her jewels, her Fifth Ave. home to fight for his release. President Taft pardoned Morse on the grounds that surgeons reported him dying...
...deeper into the indiscernible vagaries in the rear of a junk-wagon, retrieved the humble shoebag, departed triumphantly with it for its heartbroken owner - one Peter Audaim - after informing the surprised junkman that within it was concealed $1,200, Peter's life savings but recently drawn from the bank. The single clue to the identity of the junkman was the blue mattress which frugal Peter's unwitting spouse had included in her clever deal...
...oaken figure at the foot of the table. The tea business, a shareholder hinted, had far outgrown the ability of its founder. It needed, perhaps, a younger man - Sir John Ferguson, director of finance. Another share holder pointed out that the company's overdraft at the bank was ?10,000 in March. He would like to know what it was today...