Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scores for a number of musical comedies. After this he went on the road for some years "learning that anything constitutes an orchestra from a jewsharp to an accordion, and that bad musicians on he one-nighters were as often good blacksmiths, cobblers and back drivers as well as bank presidents, selectmen, and town 'Pooh-Bahs...
Detectives, despatched by the Bank of France to Amsterdam, found that the housemaid was receiving counterfeit bills regularly from her family in Hungary. They discovered that her father was the valet of the celebrated Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz...
Their excitement was caused by the fact that the Bank of France had long suspected the Hungarian-Fascist Albrechtists of being in some way connected with the French bank-note counterfeiting. It was now decided to make an exhaustive search of the 15 miles of natural tunnels in the rock upon which Windisch-Graetz Castle stands. The tunnels had once romantically housed the adherents of the famed Hungarian revolutionary Prince Francis Rakoczy. They might now have been unromantically degraded to the use of counterfeiters. The French detectives poked about with flashlights during many a weary night, found nothing...
...Morgan J. O'Brien, some-time Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (N. Y.), father of able Manhattan lawyer Kenneth O'Brien, beamed with satisfaction at the thought that the eldest of his four sons, Morgan J. Jr., is a director of the new Dublin bank...
...Douglas Straight, onetime Inspector General of Police in India, and the noted London barrister, Harry Higgins, testified that Sir Basil had often expressed to them his intention of going to Hyde Park to seek material for his book. The Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank and onetime (1911-15) Home Secretary, joined with Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Hall in testifying to the "irreproachable character of Sir Basil...