Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trades Union's two gold watches went to a Mr. W. J. Rooney of the highly respectable American Federation of Labor. And Ben Tillett's speech was as conservative as a bowler hat. With an ideology that would have done credit to a Director of the Bank of England, erstwhile firebrand Tillett pleaded for protective tariffs, increased inter-Empire trade. Said...
...tired" at 50, is the man who brought the Yellow Cab to Chicago and collected a fortune from its clicking meters. Once he wrote about sportsmen for the Chicago Record (extinct). Now he is himself a sportsman (chiefly horses) and winters in a cream-colored house on the Florida bank of the Atlantic Ocean. Albert Davis Lasker, chairman of Lord & Thomas and Logan (erstwhile Lord & Thomas) is head of the advertising agency which numbers among its accounts American Tobacco Co., Radio Corp. of America and many another. Once an $18 a week messenger boy in a Chicago agency...
Into Manhattan's Chase National Bank last fortnight walked an undistinguished-looking little man who identified himself as Charles Delos Waggoner, President of the Bank of Telluride, Col. He had with him drafts on his Telluride bank. He filled out these drafts for large, round figures, presented them to the Chase bank for Chase certification. Inasmuch as a certified check has always been considered the closest possible relative to actual coin of the realm, the certification of these drafts was a matter of no small moment. But the Chase cashier did not hesitate, for only the day before the Chase...
...routine matter appeared this transaction until the six Manhattan banks advised their six Denver correspondents that their telegraphed orders had been executed. Promptly the six Denver correspondents informed the six Manhattan banks that they had sent no such telegrams, had ordered no credits for the Bank of Telluride...
Resulted confusion, clamor and a search for Banker Waggoner. There resulted also the taking over of his Telluride bank by the Colorado banking department. Banker Waggoner was traced to Lincoln, Neb. There his trail vanished...