Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones has lived in Texas since his youthful migration from Tennessee. He made millions in lumber, rose to bank and railroad directorships, took a big man's interest in politics, became international as a Red Cross man with H. P. Davison, became national as a Democratic angel. He was opposed to placing all the advertising through one agency. On money matters, he was a little "hard-boiled." But, at fitful intervals during October, he (or Chairman Clem Shaver, through James W. Gerard, Democratic National Treasurer) paid to Van Patten Inc. $50,000 because, according to the latter, various publishers were...
Notes and coins are to be circulated within three months. The first bank notes will be in denominations of 100 schillings, replacing the 1,000,000 crown notes now in circulation...
...Women. It is not often that this department grows actively angry and recommends sudden death. Men and Women is so bad that the Famous Players headsman ought to decapitate someone. It is the ancient tale of the honest bank cashier, temptation, stolen bonds...
...Benjamin M. Anderson, economist of the Chase National Bank, Manhattan, has entered the lists on the other side. Mr. Anderson, in upholding the gold standard as against the "managed currency" proposal, naturally encounters the theories of Mr. Keynes. He refers to them .as "a refined and subtle form of greenbackism," declares that it is safer to trust gold's fluctuation in value than it is to trust politicians' "management" of a paper currency without any outside check or limits on their operations...
...American Union, of which Mexico is a member, is of no consequence in our relations with all those nations," said Mr. Nearing. "A former New York bank director is at the head of the Union. Loans made by the United States nullify all the advantages, real or imaginary, gained for any nation by membership. Almost all South American countries have had American loans forced upon them. New York cracks the whip and they jump...