Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called the highest salaried woman in the world. Now, married to Douglas Fairbanks, she makes .over $1,000,000 per annum and makes special trips to Washington about her income tax. Shrewd, energetic, an able organizer, she keeps her husband's accounts, is the director of a bank and of several business corporations, collects signatures, likes-to watch athletes. When her famed curls were shortened to a bob last year in Manhattan by Barber Charles Bock, she put them in an envelope and took them home. Some of her pictures: The Poor Little Rich Girl, The Heart...
...gold medal for architecture fell to William Pope Barney (Davis, Dunlap & Barney of Philadelphia) for his American Bank & Trust Co. building in Philadelphia. This is a small structure of classic sobriety, whose regular, massy walls are relieved by exquisite bas-reliefs and a rich composite order in columns and pilasters. Because Architect Barney previously designed many another, the bank is splendidly utilitarian...
...pears. In Sutter, Yuba, and Butte counties combined, the loss was some $10,000,000. Citrus crops were not harmed. Over many a California county hung last week the stinking smudge of oil-fires, burning to keep the frost away from the remaining crops. Possible losses to banks and insurance companies have not been estimated. Farmers in many sections, particularly the San Joaquin valley, are heavily mortgaged, and many a bank has become, involuntarily, a farm owner* Makers of tin cans, too, may notice a slackening demand for their goat-food...
...several similar public utilities operating within the sphere of influence of the Herald and Traveler. I. P. & P. is primarily a power combine nowadays, affiliated through such men as it placed in charge of the Herald and Traveler with potent finance (Old Colony Trust Co., First National Bank, Harris Forbes & Co.), with potent industry (United Shoe Machinery Corp.), with potent traction interests (New York, New Haven & Hartford...
Donors of the manuscript were Trustees George Willets Davison (Central Union Trust Co., Manhattan) and Albert W. Johnston. To procure it Trustee Davison had sent his bank's Berlin representatives to Frau Einstein with an offer to buy. Frau and Dr. Einstein, having no other offers, sold (sum unmentioned). They said they would use the money for welfare work among German university students...