Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caillaux was suspected chiefly of attempting to negotiate long term credits backed by the gold reserve of the Bank of France with Messrs. Benjamin Strong and Montague Norman, governors respectively of the Federal Reserve Bank of Manhattan and the Bank of England. Both gentlemen remained quietly at Antibes, French Riviera, throughout the week, informed news gatherers that their health was rapidly improving in that salubrious climate. According to despatches they conferred daily by telephone with M. Cail-laux's agents...
...General of the Fascist Party (TiME, Apr. 12), by the comparatively mild and steady-going Augusto Turati. The latter, sharply prodded by Fed-erzoni, instituted an investigation of Farinacci's chief fiscal backers, who were jailed (TIME, July 5) on charges of abstracting funds illegally from the Agricultural Bank of Parma. Thus the Vatican's authority has seemed to wax triumphant over Fascismo's more intemperate ex-ponents-a fact which set rumors flying last week that Federzoni's abstention from the Cabinet's "decree session" was intended as a protest. The Holy See, whose...
...thieves" were Count Lugi Lusignani, onetime President of the Bank of Parma; Giambattista Biaggi, Swiss Consul General at Genoa; and Professor Alessandro Groppali of the University of Parma. They were jailed last week on sealed charges. Allegedly the President and the Professor had misused their influence as prominent Fascists to abstract quietly from the recently bankrupt Bank of Parma many a golden lira. The detention of these particular gentlemen was notable. All are intimates of Roberto Farinacci, recently deposed as Secretary General of the Fascist party, because of his arbitrary and ruthless extermination not only of the foes of Fascismo...
...Soviet authorities continuously debased the ruble by inflation until it all but vanished, with the avowed intention of employing thereafter a system of communal barter into which money would not enter. Since 1921 a reversal of this policy has resulted in the creation of a new State Bank and the introduction of the Tchervonets (plural "Tchervontsy"), a monetary unit equivalent to 10 pre-war gold rubles...
Last week License sported, as is her wont every June, on her favorite bank of the Seine, the left one. All one afternoon the cafés and bars along the Boulevard de Montparnasse filled slowly with semi-nude men and women, daubed and stained, and greasepainted brown, black, crimson, orange, vermilion, blue and green, with headdresses, beads and anklets intended to indicate that they were Aztecs of ancient Mexico. They were students, and eager friends* of students, and joyful models of students at the Academie des Beaux Arts. The year's work was over and preparations were...