Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollar, which the government was then issuing, which were commonly called "shin-plasters." It still serves a useful purpose in preventing the flooding of the country with quasi currency issued by individuals or corporations, but it has no application to a person who draws an ordinary check on his bank account for a sum of less than one dollar...
...million-dollar libel suit last week threatened Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt just when her bank balance was beginning to fatten on the proceeds of her series of newspaper articles on "The Inside of Prohibition" (TIME,, Aug. 12 et seq.). In an instalment which flayed the meddlesomeness of the Anti-Saloon League, she trod on the tender toe of a onetime Prohibition enforcement chief at St. Louis...
...restaurant exchanged obscene impressions. Now he knew he must be very distasteful to her since, definitely a prostitute, she had turned down only himself. He climbed into her bedroom after midnight, but she was sleeping elsewhere. In the morning he found her, took her to the river bank, twisted her arm to make her admit he disgusted her. She began screaming shrilly in terror and in equal terror he began beating her over the face with a convenient club. In his flight he joyfully murdered an oldster who seemed to be watching...
Denver. Ray Stevenson, 36, 6 ft., 165 lb., thin brown hair, two bullet scars on right shoulder, wanted for bank robberies at Denver and at Englewood. Reward: $1,500. Warning: "Desperate bank robber...
...raised by Prime Minister Aristide Briand: was the whole 45 million marks annual increase demanded by "mon cher M. Snowden" supposed to come out of the share in Reparations alloted to France (amounting to 54% of the total) ? Instantly, an actor taking his cue, the Governor of the Bank of France, potent Emile Moreau, was on his feet. With flashing eyes he cried, "If the whole of this burden is placed on France, I will withdraw my signature as an original signer of the Young Plan...