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Word: bankes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan loan was implicated in a convention between the Government and the Bank of France to repay the latter by regular annual installments. According to a convention signed in 1920, the amount was fixed at 2,000,000,000 francs ($100,000,000), but repayment of this figure proved impossible. Finance Minister elemental proposed to repay only 1,200,000,000 a year and this proposal was satisfactory to the Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dans le Parlement | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...budget for this purpose and add 400,000,000 francs from the proceeds of the Morgan loan, which is still intact. Chamber and Senate agreed, but the latter insisted upon adding a clause which prohibited the Government from using the Morgan money for any purpose except repaying the Bank of France, and which stipulated that any residue after the payment to the Bank was to be applied to repaying the banking house of Morgan. The Chamber refused the emendation in the original bill, sent it back to the Senate. The Senate declined to reconsider the matter and sent the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dans le Parlement | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

Undetected, like a shadow in the dead of night. Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England made his way to the U. S. Why had he come? What was he doing? Governor Norman was silent. Wall Street magnates blew smoke rings from their fat cigars and looked wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: From the Old Lady | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...should not be difficult for a committee of ten collectors to gather four or five hundred dollars among the three thousand under graduates of the college. This fund could be deposited in a savings bank and the interest of it could be put in charge of the infirmary matron. It should be attended to now, so that Christmas of 1925 will be provided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/8/1925 | See Source »

...Berlin, a man well known in Germany but little known abroad, a man feared, hated, despised, as was the sombre, inscrutable, all-powerful, Hugo Stinnes-this man was arrested on the suspicion of having defrauded the Prussian State Bank and on a charge of usury. Subsequent inves- tigation failed to substantiate the charges and the man was discharged last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Stinnes the Second | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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