Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baroness Leontine Puttkammer, was arrested in Vienna. She was accused of having put arsenic in her husband's coffee. Dr. Adolph Gessmann, President of the Vienna Credit Bank, found that his new bride, descendant of the Iron Chancellor, was a manhater. She left him shortly after her marriage, on the ground that she did not like men. Persuaded to return, she poisoned Dr. Gessmann the first evening after their reunion...
...Once, when investigated, he said that if he had any interest in the Guaranty Trust Co., it was so small he had forgotten it. His small holding was in excess of $700,000. ¶ Mr. Baker once bought control of Chase Bank with a view to amalgamating it with his own. But the Chase Bank prospered so mightily he never effected the merger. ¶The First National is still most humbly furnished, but its dividends are scarcely ever less than 60 per cent on $10,000,000. ¶ Mr. Baker has gone in very little for public charity. Cornell...
Born in Troy, N. Y., March 27, 1840, George F. Baker got a job at $2 as grocer's boy, participated in 1863 in the formation of the first New York Bank under the National Bank Act, "plunged" successfully in U. S. war bonds, made the First National Bank the bank of banks-that is about all that is known of Mr. Baker† in the last century. Friends say he has the hardest shell and softest heart in America...
...Baker bank kept close to the late J. P. Morgan during all of his masterful career. They were together on U. S. Steel, together in the 1907 panic, together on New York Central when Commodore Vanderbilt's son abdicated...
...first the trip from New York City to Albany was made always on river steamboats. Presently, however, the Hudson River Railroad, running up the eastern bank, was constructed, as well as one on the western bank. These independent lines were purchased in 1863, after a historic struggle in the stockmarket by Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. A few years afterwards, he also acquired the New York Central, and thus consolidated the route to Lake Erie...