Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served by one hydro-electric corporation made it necessary for him once again to urge the Legislature (Republican) to create a body of public trustees to develop St. Lawrence waterpower for the people. He called attention to the fact that although the power company may own the bank of the river, the state owns the river bottom to the international boundary, that the state, not the power company will develop power there. In Washington Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana, prime foe of the "power trust," declared that the merger was a long step toward unified control of the power...
...persons" will represent the U. S., Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Japan. They expect to meet within a fortnight to grapple with the job of drafting a charter for Europe's new International Bank of (reparations) Settlements. Though not the largest bank in the world, the I. B. S. will have the world's broadest scope. It is the cornerstone of the Young Plan, which has now superseded the Dawes Plan. It will act as the clearing house through which Germany will pay reparations for 57 years on the instalment plan. It will progressively capitalize future payments in advance...
...Rooster is Rentfro Banton Creager, red-haired Brownsville bank president, Republican National Committeeman and Texas boss, onetime gubernatorial nominee, good friend of Presidents Harding and Coolidge, both of whom offered him the U. S. Ambassadorship to Mexico. In every way "Rooster" Creager looms large in Texas. When he read references to himself which he considered defamatory in Collier's magazine, he was not one to blench. Promptly he filed libel suits against Cottier's aggregating...
Last week, Dr. Eckener and most of the Akron group sped to Manhattan. There they conferred with representatives of G.M.P.-Murphy & Co. and of Lehman Bros., and feted with National City Bank officials. Those houses are bankers for Continental plane lines? North, Central and South America. By making connections with them Dr. Eckener and Mr. Litchfield foresaw a possible world air linkage?Zeppelins by sea, planes by land...
...Ogdensburg, N. Y., Mrs. Henry Bushey, 90, grandmother of 20, great-grandmother of "about 100," hustled to the bank of the Oswegatchie River, stumbled off into 15 ft. of water, struggled ashore dragging Louis Seigal, 63. Said she: "I'm not as strong as I used...