Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some bitter editorial writer or acrid political economist who penned these words? So it would seem. Not so. This was a paid advertisement, published by one of the large banks of Manhattan ? the Harriman National Bank...
...extraordinary that such a traditionally conservative institution as a bank should choose such a mode of expression; and extraordinary that it should denounce such an established institution as the Congress of the U. S. Already one can hear radicals ejaculating : "We are accused of attacking our institutions 'but here is Wall Street,* the conservative banking interests, doing the same thing with impunity!" As a matter of fact, the radicals can have less honest objection to such a mode of procedure than if the Harriman National Bank spent its money in devious ways to buy influence at Washington or to subsidize...
Hope was "entertained" that Sir Robert Kendersley, Director of the Bank of England and member of the First Committee of Experts, would accept the post of Commissioner General of the new German Gold Bank...
...Weed, Vice President of First National Bank, Boston...
...From that date to 1902, he served as its President, except for a two-year period during the Civil War, when he was called by Abraham Lincoln to act as Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. Since 1902, Mr. Stewart has acted as Chairman of the Board of the bank which, a half-century before, he had organized...