Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chosen by the cooperatives to coordinate Federal activities as outlined above. Third Report. Efforts should be made to improve the spirit of sympathetic cooperation in Federal agencies dealing with agriculture, and to improve their efficiency by preventing jealousies and duplication of effort. Efforts should be made to strengthen the banks serving farmers, especially by enlarging the national bank system. The activities of the Government in establishing quarantines against animal and plant diseases, and in gathering market and crop information, already valuable, should be improved and extended. The Cooperative Marketing Board (suggested in the Second Report) should be empowered to represent...
...dinner in the Manhattan house of Charles E. Mitchell, President of the National City Bank, Leonard Astrom, Finnish Minister of Finance, made a speech, presented to Mr. Mitchell the Order of the White Rose for sponsoring three Finnish loans. After the speech, the presentation, conversation, turned to Nurmi. "That mans' legs,' said Minister Astrom, "have been worth $10,000,000 to Finland." He said that Nurmi's prowess had made men interested in Finland* who might never else have heard of the country, had thus enormously strengthened Finland's credit, brought subscriptions to her loans...
...where is France to get gold? Economists say that the fall of the franc was caused by the depletion of the gold reserves in the Bank of France. If France has no gold, she must depend on trade to replenish her stock. To rebuild her industry and commerce, France must have time; but time is the one thing American policy cannot grant her if there is to be immediate tax reduction it home...
...touch of the medieval is being transplanted to the Cambridge bank of the Charles river, where on Memorial Drive just above Boylston street, the Society of St. John the Evangelist is building its new monastic mission house. Eventually this new building will be the mother house of the society in this country, superceding the quarters now occupied at 33 Bowdoin street, Boston. At present, however, none of the new plant is in use except the little chapel, St. Francis' House, which for over a year has been used as the order's chapel for the University...
Engaged. William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, world's champion pugilist, to Mrs. Ida Estelle Peacock (Estelle Taylor), cinema actress, who a fortnight ago secured her final decree of divorce from Malcolm Peacock, Philadelphia bank clerk. Pugilist Dempsey plans to become a business man, to devote his time to managing his real estate interests...