Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ready to race even by next week. The course which will be covered will be about five miles, beginning near the Anderson Bridge on the South side of the river, leading up the river as far as Water-town, and then back to the Bridge along the north bank. The first five men on each side to cross the finish will be the only ones to count in the scoring. It is probable that Coach Farrell will choose nine or ten runners to represent the Crimson...
...content with accumulating the recording the current history of his time, Mr. Martin delved backward into sources which were then open to him, and recorded in several published volumes the financial history of Boston for a period of one hundred years prior to 1898. He covered the interesting "Bank Panic" of 1837, the second panic of 1857, the depressed times of the rebellion, and the later panics of '73, '84 and '93. Three New England railroads quoted during the first panic, the Boston & Lowell. Boston & Providence, and Boston & Worcester, fell from highs...
...Federation in organizing steel workers, textile operatives in the South, teachers, packing house employees, bank clerks, and female office workers of New York City. (This resolution was among the first reported out of committee, with a favorable recommendation, and was passed...
...Attorney General's dictum was apparently an outgrowth of the strong sentiment in the American Bankers' Association last year against branch banking; its alleged purpose was to strengthen the Reserve System. Such legislation is, however, distinctly dangerous to this very purpose, since national banks must compete with state banks, and if state charters allow more latitude than national, existing national banks will convert into state banks, as the Irving has recently done. The privilege of issuing banknotes yields so little profit to a national bank, that its surrender is not a serious consideration...
Greek Protest. At the time of authorizing the payment of the indemnity by the Swiss National Bank to the Bank of Italy, Greece lodged a protest with the Council of Ambassadors. She said that the Italian fleet had returned to Corfu (Italy denied this) and that she had not shown negligence in trying to discover the Janina criminals. Under the latter heading she pleaded extenuating circumstances, stating that, she was unable to pursue investigations on Albanian soil, where the murderers are presumed to have sought refuge...