Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system of community singing in American schools and assemblies, and especially in the growing love of singing for pleasure's sake. Above all, this gentleman was pleased with the revolution which the Harvard Glee Club has accomplished in sounding the death-knell of the "Bull-Frog on the Bank" type of music, sung by what he terms "merely more or less convivial societies for singing raucous songs with banjo accompaniment"--an astoundingly accurate description...
...name of Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, chosen by the President as special counsel in the oil cases, was withdrawn after opposition to confirming his nomination developed in the Senate. His fault was that he was a Director of the First National Bank and First Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, which are depositories of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The withdrawal eliminated both of the prosecutors originally named by the President-the other attorney, Thomas W. Gregory, of Texas, having retired (TIME, Feb. 11) when it became known that he had once accepted a fee from a group...
John McHugh, President of the Mechanics and Metals National Bank, announced that New York's quota was oversubscribed. Ralph Van Vechten. President of the Continental and Commercial National Bank, announced that Chicago's quota was oversubscribed. The other cities followed, piling on their oversubscriptions. Money flowed. No official list of subscribers was given out, but it was understood that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul had pledged $100,000; the Rock Island Lines, $100,000; J. P. Morgan and Co., $500,000; the National City Bank (Manhattan), $500,000; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., $250,000; Henry Ford...
...20th Century came and eternal harmonies continued to vibrate in the mind of the Bishop. He could not fully utter them. His talk became a little wild. Men did not love one another utterly. His talk became wilder, and began to grate upon vestrymen and other bishops with bank accounts. At a general meeting, in Boston, he was nearly mobbed. Finally his health broke, and in 1912 he resigned, went to live in Galion, Ohio, the Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, ex-Bishop of Arkansas...
Several years ago a Cleveland bank won undeserved fame by sponsoring a California Ranching Company, consisting of a cat and rat ranch--the cats to eat the rats, the rats the cats, and the cat skins to be had free. The bank was forced to remove the sign, because potential investors obstructed regular business. But former Mayor Thompson of Chicago is now desirous of carrying the virtue Faith back to her high estate...