Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elis made off with their booty while Jack Watson '22 carried the news to the crews who were in the boathouse down on the river bank. The Crimson oarsmen rushed up the hill where their opponents' quarters are, starting to sack the rooms. Fortunately before things had gone very far, someone mentioned the fact that it was a little boy who had stolen the flag. Then ensued apologies, and a return of the flags by the captains. The old agreement of no open hostilities was renewed...
...them a forecast of future conditions is made. In addition to the general study of economic situations, several special investigations have been made possible by gifts from Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, Philip Cabot '94, the Consolidated Steel Corporation, the American International Corporation, J. P. Morgan & Company, the National City Bank of New York, the United States Steel Products Company (the exporting branch of the United States Steel Corporation), and W. R. Grace & Company...
...opening chapter puts the conference in its setting and describes its methods of work, besides indicating the nature of the questions it had to settle. The principal problems are then passed in review Belgium and Schleswig, Alsace-Lorraine, the Left Bank of the Rhine, the Saar Valley, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, Austria-Hungary, the Italian frontier and the states of the Balkans. The historical background is given in each case, but each problem is placed in the perspective of the negotiations at Paris and viewed primarily as one calling for practical solution in the treaties of peace. Particular attention...
...book, which includes considerable horse-play, is not entirely lacking in clever lines, although they are rather few and far between. The scorn of the chorus girl for the impecunious First National Bank which didn't have $35 to pay a check, returning it marked "No Funds," was a fine bit of sarcasm. Except for occasional flashes like this the action was inclined to drag...
...weeks ago the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City inaugurated an entirely new system of rediscounts. The Reserve Board had come to the conclusion that, despite the prevailing high rates of interest, it was still far too easy for mercantile houses in the district to finance unwarranted expansion. This condition of affairs seemed directly traceable to the fatal facility with which commercial paper could be rediscounted at the Reserve Bank by the national banks, the amount acceptable for rediscount from any individual institution being limited virtually only by that banks' supply of eligible paper. In numerous instances, in order...