Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...junior lord of admiralty, a thorn in George Ill's side, at 21. William Pitt, Britain's prime minister for 17 years, assumed office at 24, having previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. At 20, Alexander Hamilton was a leading authority on government; at 24, conceived the National Bank. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence at 33. Robert Peel's name was great in Parliament soon after he was 21. J. T. Delane became editor of the London Times...
...yodel glad tidings from the housetops nor yet to whistle in the dark. No "boom" was on, but pessimism was conspicuously dormant. The measure of distribution-car loadings- stayed high. The measures of demand and production-shipments and orders-were in good volume. The measures of volume-and-price -bank clearings-kept their level. Through the lens that is Wall Street, quickened activity could be observed in several industries that have drowsed of late-notably oil, copper, sugar, textiles...
...Manhattan last week the developing billion-dollar merger of the Chase National Bank and the Mechanics & Metals National Bank (under the name of the Chase National Bank) seemed catalytic to three other banking consolidations similarly stupendous. Talk on Wall Street was that the National City Bank (the greatest in the U. S., with total assets of $1,215,033,702) was in process of absorbing the Corn Exchange Bank; that the Central Union Trust Co., the National Park Bank and the Chemical National Bank might be driven into union by Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co. (he is reported...
...with most speed. And among dictators, Premier Pangalos rivals Mussolini for absoluteness and Mustafa for ingenuity. The Greek ruler's latest bid for fame is based on financial wizardry of a sort Monsieur Caillaux never conceived of. By simple proclamation, so "Time" reports, Pangalos forces every possessor of a bank note with a face value of more than twenty five drachmas to snip an end therefrom. The snipped notes, worth three quarters of the legend printed on them, continue to circulate dolefully while the other quota goes to the "National Forced Loan...
...pupils were asked to tell what had impressed them about the speech. Carl Bismarck Roden, of the Public Library made them look up the life of John Quincy Adams, to illustrate the use of reference devices. S. E. Thomason, business manager of the Chicago Tribune, brought out a bank deposit slip and made the pupils total it up- a test of reliability in practical arithmetic. Other tests were given, by qualified testers, in literary taste, good manners, music, history, civics, composition, penmanship, drawing, art appreciation, safety methods. At the end, Superintendent McAndrew declared himself well satisfied. He felt sure...