Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago, at least, that Carlos the Crook tried to inveigle the lion-hearted Andy Gump into buying fake oil stock. And about a month later the same scoundrel, Carlos, treacherously stole the modest bank roll of the fair Widow Zander...
...kitty," especially longed for shirts with sleeves instead of the sacklike garments slipped over his head. Then too a sideshow was tempting the Wiegman family with money for the boy's services as a "freak." He was ambitious, however; wanted to emulate the success of Michael Dowling, bank president of Olivet, Minn., who had lost both his legs and both his arms* at the age of 16, of Judge Corliss of Texas who lost both arms at the shoulders and then progressed to a county judgeship...
Died. Jacob Haish, 99, "inventor of barbed wire," possibly the oldest bank president in the U. S. (Haish State, De Kalb, Ill.), millionaire; at De Kalb, of pneumonia...
...Mechanics & Metals, founded in 1810 and one of the very oldest in the U. S., was originally a labor bank created by members of the Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen for "the benefit of mechanical interests and to be conducive to the more successful conduct of the manufactories of the city." Their initial capitalization was $1,500,000, strong competition for the only three other banks then existing in Manhattan. Its first building was the three-story, onetime home of Alexander Hamilton. Customers approached the counting room over a front lawn, on which thrifty first President John Slidell kept tethered...
...They found that the railroads Lad just ended a happy year; that the automobile industry had again confounded pessimists; that 1925 set another record for building; that steel, silk, wool, cotton and rayon were prospering. Then a banker, O. H. Cheney, Vice President of the American Exchange-Pacific National Bank, oriented once and for all the importance of the dry-goods industry, and answered those supercilious ones who have jeered at dry-goods men. "I think," he said, "that the department store might be considered the greatest single factor in raising the American standard of living to where...