Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forbes and that of Wood) because the latter "gave Filipino politicians power which they abused." A Government railroad was formed and the President of the Senate became President of the road. The railroad was so bungled that the gentleman had to retire from his second post. A Philippine National Bank was set up. But since an auditor examined its books, its President has been in jail. Mr. Forbes concluded that the Filipinos need not independence but a firm hand to guide them...
General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics. On Feb. 16, 1923, General Wood sent to the Philippine Legislature a message dealing principally with the Philippine National Bank. The Legislature never heard the Governor's words because the Quezon-Osmena group which controls the Legislature quietly suppressed the message. Lately members of the Democratic (minority) Party began to agitate for a disclosure of the message which they had never seen. Finally General Wood published...
...Roland Hegedus, sometime resident in Chicago and former Hungarian Minister of Finance, is reported to have recovered from the effects of a mental collapse suffered two years ago. He has just left a private lunatic asylum to assume directorship of the Commercial Bank of Budapest...
...assets of the estate included securities worth $73,009,103, mortgages and notes $24,791,801, real estate $2,941,550, personal property $405,062 and bank balances of $70,287. Mr. Rockefeller's stocks included shares of Standard Oil subsidiaries worth about $3,000,000; also 55,686 shares of St. Paul preferred; 28,517 shares Inspiration Copper; 5,000 Lackawanna Railroad; 39,300 Midvale Steel; 17,300 U. S. Industrial Alcohol; 15,300 Union Pacific; 2,330 Glen Alden Coal; 8,400 New York Central; shares in the Farmers Loan & Trust Co., Guaranty Trust, Hanover National, Mechanics...
Charles ("Chick") Evans, Jr., famed golfer: " I was accused by a Chicago Board of Trade man of giving him a bogus check for $7,500 on a grain speculation. My explanation was that I wrote the check to accommodate the broker pending a loan from my bank...