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Word: bankes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the last few years bank failures have become common, the number mounting into the hundreds in Minnesota alone. I am familiar with homes where after a lifetime of hard work, people are forced to live on the small allowance available from the poor fund. I know mothers who are supporting several children on a sum of $15 or $20 a month from the same fund. I know how they are housed and clothed and what rents they pay, but imagination balks when confronted with how they keep warm and what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...great financiers assembled in Paris as the Second Dawes Committee spent last week in elaborating privately their plan of creating a stupendous Bank of International Settlement (TIME, March 11) to deal simultaneously and on a business basis with every phase of the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Nice House | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Finally last week the delegates achieved sufficient unity to issue a joint mimeographed statement-the first released since the Second Dawes Committee assembled. Though couched in the most general terms, it was well calculated to quiet fears that the new Bank of International Settlement will prove a dangerous competitor of other banks and bond houses. "... The institution to be created," read the statement, "would strictly avoid competition with existing commercial and investment banking institutions and would consider it to be of prime necessity to act in close co-operation with existing central banks of issue. In fact, the bank would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Nice House | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

This evening at 7.15 o'clock, C. R. Snyder, chief statistician for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will speak in Baker Library, Room 100, on the Federal Reserve System. All students and officers of the Business School are invited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snyder Addresses Businessmen | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

Cambridge traffic would be helped by this improvement, most of all by the new drives on the Boston bank which would fill in the present gap between Bay State Road and Otter St. The new drive would pass under the arches of the Harvard and Longfellow bridges and would thus give a continuous road which, after crossing Cambridge St., Brighton, at the end of the River St. bridge at grade, will have no other crossing at grade until it reaches the 'end of the Charles River Dam where it connects with Nashua St., which is now being widened. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killam Discusses Proposals to Alter Charles River and Basin | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

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