Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report is after all in the balance sheet. The giant corporation on Dec. 31, 1923, had $143,499,628 in cash, $7,037,543 in time deposits, $64,086,486 in marketable securities and, plus other investments, a total of $346,226,742 of money in the bank or invested-almost enough to retire the $360,281,100 of preferred stock. Working capital at this latest date amounted to $570,841,548. Buttressing the current earning position of the Corporation are its sundry reserve funds of $163,260,622, its approximate surplus of $180,898,914, and its undivided surplus...
Frank A. Vanderlip, onetime President of the National City Bank of Manhattan: "Because of my voluntary activity in the oil investigations, I was requested by J. Horace Harding, a member of the board of the Continental Can Co., to resign as a director of that Company. I complied. Said I: 'The only thing I can say is that those who take that attitude will be very much ashamed later...
...runs his enormous plant on a profit-sharing plan?a plan of bonuses, based on a sliding scale dependent on the dividend rate. His reasons for so doing, he explains as follows: worked in a bank as a young man. I started working at 14, when I left school and got a $3 job with an insurance house. My superior left?I had been doing his work, was thoroughly conversant with it?should have had the job. I expected it?rny fellow-workers expected it. Well, I didn't get it; some relative of one of the directors...
...PRISONER WHO SANG-Johan Bojer-Century ($2.00). Enthusiastically heralded by its jacket blurb as "A Peer Gynt in prose," this is the story of a Norwegian of many aliases, a strange lad who wanders through the countryside impersonating now a preacher, now a young actor, now a decrepit bank messenger-a "long procession of persons, created by himself, and every one of them fleeing before the police." Sometimes he grew anxious for their safety. And the reader assuredly grows dizzy. Bojer has a graphic, stark style, a trick of creating atmosphere in a single sentence...
...medal, which will be held at 8 o'clock this evening in Sever 36. This competition is open to all men in the University, candidates being required to speak for five minutes on either the affirmative or negative side of the question: "Resolved, that the demilitarization of the left bank of the Rhine under international supervision, is necessary for the maintenance of peace in Europe...