Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan is to interpolate the regular lectures or class-room discussion in such subjects as government or economics with timely discourses on important world problems. How many interested students of finance must there be who would desire an analytical lecture on the intricacies and potentialities of the proposed International Bank which is now engaging the minds of the financial giants of the world at Paris; how many close followers of international relations would enjoy an enlightening discourse on the underlying causes and conditions of the current Mexican disturbance. So, important world events, but sketchily I learned from newspaper reports, might...
...Before I took office ... in 1921 . . . I resigned every office I then held in any corporation and resigned all my directorates. ... I sold every share of stock I owned in every national bank, trust company or other banking institution. I then owned and I now own a substantial amount of stock in the Gulf Oil Corp., the Aluminum Co. of America, Standard Steel Car Co. and other business corporations, but in every case my holding is very much less than a majority of the voting stock of such corporations. . . . My active connection with them was severed in 1921 as completely...
...committee did succeed in agreeing on the nature and functions of the proposed international bank of settlement (TIME, March 11, 25), and at the very worst, that notable achievement, set forth in a voluminous report, will crown the labors of Mr. Morgan and Mr. Young. Said a member of the Japanese delegation when things looked blackest last week, "I am deeply sorry for our chairman. Mr. Young has done everything a man could possibly do to make for success. It is a shame that his wonderful work should be branded with defeat. He deserved something far, far better!" Allied Bulls...
...raised the discount rate from 6 1-2 to 7 1-2 per cent yesterday, according to reports from Berlin. This is declared to be an attempt, belated say the French, to check the outflow of gold from Germany which has been going on with increasing strength since the bank rate was lowered from 7 to 6 1-2 per cent, in January...
...Even when we have got near to them, our difficulties have only begun, for an elephant is not a pleasant beast. Once when I was walking through a bank of bushes my outstretched hand hit something that didn't feel like wood. It wasn't; it was the side of an elephant! I couldn't get out of that place fast enough...