Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another business man goeth into politics-Evans Woollen, Indianapolis Bank President-a man to whom President Wilson offered a place on the Federal Reserve Board; who is Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the American Bankers' Association; who is or has been chairman, president or director of a railway, a life insurance company, any number of charitable and welfare associations, a college, an historical society, an art association, a fuel administration and memorials ranging from Benjamin Harrison to James Whitcomb Riley. He is besides a Democrat, and once ran for Congress-in 1896 on the Gold Democratic ticket...
Died. Alfred Curtis Knox, 78, for 22 years Vice President of the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh, brother of onetime Senator Philander C. Knox; at Ben Avon, Pa., after a lingering illness...
...could be justified only by the undoubted fiscal emergency with which France is faced. Of all Frenchmen, M. Briand alone was thought to possess sufficient prestige to jam this bill through the Chamber and Senate. Its provisions : 1) The immediate issue of 7½ billion paper francs by the Bank of France; 6 billions to go to the depleted Treasury, and 1½ billions to supply the needs of commerce...
...Bank to be reimbursed for the Government's 6 billion francs by March 15, 1926, through increased taxation as follows...
...belated rate-advance of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco left only the New York Bank with a 3½% rate. Last week all the eleven other Banks maintained their rates at 4%. The delay in advancing the New York rate has doubtless been due to the effect which such a step might have in disturbing sterling exchange rates and perhaps increasing British gold shipments...