Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Churchmen who condone Sabbath-breaking are as wicked in God's sight as bootleggers, robbers, bank breakers, adulterers, drunkards and liars' whom they condemn...
...wreckage before they could stop. Among them were the strolling players, the handsome limousine. Little Eva was badly shaken. The two bloodhounds yelped with pain and rage. The banker emerged from his limousine with blood flowing from a gashed head-Mr. R. B. Mellon, President of the Mellon National Bank, brother of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon...
...best to convey to him that he had as much right to pester me about these things as to ask where I bought my trousers or whether I had an overdraft at the bank. After a time I succeeded in stunning or killing these tentatives to vulgarity and then he proceeded to discuss the view...
Late despatches added little to this tale of wanton slaughter. Only three other passengers were mentioned, all of whom escaped: Mr. Russell, a mining man from Pachura, and "the wife and child of C. H. Sharratt, Manager of the Guadalajara branch of the Bank of Montreal." President Calles at once ordered 4,000 Federal troops to pursue the bandits, or "revolutionaries," to a ranch known as " Quitupan" in the state of Jalisco, whither they had fled after escaping on the engine of the wrecked train...
Another by no means inexperienced or uninformed group of business men is so impressed by the country's immense credit and money power that it is less inclined to predict a business slump in 1926. They point out that never in the history of the country has bank credit been so cheap, abundant and apparently sound at the crest-if it is one-of a business boom. In general they believe that our great banking resources are today a stabilizing factor that never existed before in anything like the same degree...