Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Banker Morgan. Since the House of Morgan has deep, traditional roots in England, young "Jack" served his ap prenticeship in the city of biggest banks - London. There are no less than five British banks ("The Big Five") bigger than any in the U. S.- Midland Bank, Ltd., Lloyds Bank, Ltd., Barclay's Bank, Ltd., Westminster Bank, Ltd., National Provincial Bank...
...chance Germany should go bankrupt or bolshevik, the bond salesmen would have made their commissions, the Great Powers would have their money, and only the individuals who bought bonds would be out of pocket. Though the roulette wheel of peoples and politics spins and spins-red or black the bank will...
Traditionally the principal backer of the Greek Republic has been London's huge Hambros Bank, Ltd. Recently it has been rumored that Hambros has been trying to coerce the grand, foxy old man of Greece, Eleutherios Venizelos, into concluding an agreement which would give it an absolute monopoly of Greek public financing...
Although every youth whose heels are tagged by the lowest mongrel probably will dispute the claim, Laund Loyalty of Bellhaven was adjudged "best dog." Laund Loyalty is a male collie puppy, nine months old, sable-and-white. He is owned by Mrs. Florence B. Ilch, of Red Bank, N. J., the proprietor of Bellhaven Collie Kennels, who shipped Bellhaven Behoover, scion of champion collie stock, to Mrs. Herbert Hoover the day before the election (TIME...
More specific was Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa, who was born in a log cabin remote from the money-changers. Why, argued Senator Brookhart, quibble about such a detail as prohibiting merely Federal Reserve Banks from making speculative loans to Federal Reserve Bank members? Let us prohibit any loan by any bank to any borrower who might put the loan to speculative purposes. Radical also was the remedy offered by Utah's Senator William H. King, who has ascertained that 85% of speculation is made on margins, and who believes therefore that marginal trading should be abolished. Senator...