Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trouble. All issues arise from somebody's trouble. This issue arises out of financial misfortune in farming communities. It centres for the present in Iowa: the price of corn, bank failures, etc.?the entire round of agricultural depression. The leaders of the issue-makers are Senator Capper of Kansas and Representative Dickinson of Iowa, both Republicans, champions in the two Houses of Congress of a rapidly reviving farm bloc...
...Within a few days he is to confer in Washington with farm editors, with farm leaders of note (Frank 0. Lowden, Aaron Shapiro, Sam Thompson), with a conference of cooperative marketing associations. Some of the supporters of the Administration's position blame Iowa's troubles largely on Iowa's banks. Iowa normally feeds about four fifths of her corn to hogs. Last year the corn crop was small, and Iowa farmers sold many hogs, presumably under bankers' advice. This year the corn crop is large. That of itself tends to lower the price. The quality of the crop is poor...
...became an eccentric recluse. Both men realized the difficulty of passing on titanic newspaper properties. Mr. Munsey consulted friends. Mr. Lawson consulted nobody. Soon after his funeral, when the will was taken out of Mr. Lawson's vault, at the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., it was found that the Bank had been made trustee of the Daily News, which it was to run in the interests of charities and Congregational Church activities. Mr. Lawson, like many Scandinavians, was deeply religious?in this differing from Mr. Munsey, who was frankly worldly. But a bank cannot run a newspaper, and Banker Mitchell...
Hanford MacNider is 36. He is a banker, a soldier, a Harvard graduate. He hails from Mason City, Iowa, where he was born, and worked in a bank until he went to war. He served in the A. E. F. from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel, at Chateau Thierry and Soissons, and after the War went back to Mason City and banking. His "buddies" (comrades) elevated him to State Commander of the American Legion, then to National Commander, because he had their welfare at heart...
...York City, financiers buzzed excitedly over a luncheon given by Vice President Reeve Schley of the Chase National Bank to the representatives of the Ail-American Textile Syndicate and the Amtorg Trading Corporation, the latter being the Russian Soviet Union's agency...