Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Past. In 1916 during his second term as governor, Jim Ferguson was careless enough to get impeached by letting it seem as though he may have used state funds and a "loan" from brewers to save a bank of his from collapsing. Though deprived of civic eligibility, he thumbed his nose and ran again in 1918 anyway. He even ran for President in 1920, getting 100,000 votes. Two years ago he conceived and executed his brilliant scheme of having his wife elected Governess on an Anti-Klan plank. An amnesty bill was ram med through the legislature to make...
...when the debate began. Former Premier Herriot, president of the Chamber, leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, a man of such lofty principles that his last Ministry was overthrown (TIME, April 20, 1925), when it was discovered that he had countenanced tampering with the books of the Bank of France, arose, not to urge any program of his own to save the franc, but solely to upset his rival, M. Briand, and enemy, M. Caillaux, whose notorious reputation has made him suspect of many Frenchmen (TIME, July...
...Bank of Italy, San Francisco...
...interrelation of these banks, latest to fail, was intimate. They belonged to a chain of 120 banks, financed and supported by the Bankers' Trust Co. of Atlanta, Ga. (W. D. Manley, president; Paul J. Baker, treasurer). Part of its policy was to insure the deposits of allied institutions. Therefore when the Umatilla (Fla.) Bank discovered that some of its $441,500 deposits in the Bankers' Trust Co. were going to cover the closures of the Bank of Dania (TIME, July 12) and of others in similar predicament, the Umatilla officials applied for, and obtained, a receivership against...
...Bank of Commerce...