Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that by shouting "BANCO," anyone may become the banker of a table if he wins a stake. Usually the Syndicate is allowed to do all the "Banco"-shouting. Last year however an apparently rich Cal ifornian who said his name was "Mr. Day" wanted to play bank and was graciously allowed to oust the Syndicate. On the first coup they wagered a half-million francs against Banker Day at one end of the table and a million at the other. As he dealt the cards they stood to lose $60,000; but he lost instead, at both ends...
...Fisher, Walter Chrysler, invest his money for him. Investors in U. S. investment trusts usually do not know exactly where their money is being used (English investment trusts are more considerate); they are simply trusting the Trust. Perhaps the best analogy to an Investment Trust would be a hypothetical bank that had no restrictions on what it could do with the depositors' money. Funds invested in Investment Trusts may well yield 10% or more, may also yield nothing at all. Prior to 1925 there were only 29 U. S. investment trusts; at present there are some...
...Cutten and Board Chairman Elisha Walker, first partner of Blair & Co. (TIME, Dec. 10). Other famed directors are Halstead G. Freeman, president of Chase Securities, Charles Hayden, of Hayden, Stone & Co., E. F. Hutton, chairman of Postum Co., Inc. President is John H. Markham, Jr., head of the Exchange Bank of Tulsa, Okla., an independent oil opera tor. Petroleum Corp. will make its initial investments in Prairie Oil & Gas and Prairie Pipe Line?the two oil companies whose Rockefeller holdings (TIME, Dec. 10) were recently purchased by Blair...
...Mercantile Trust Co. and the National Bank of Commerce, both in St. Louis, made dickers last week, preliminary to a consolidation. Effected, the merger would form a bank, as large, perhaps larger, than the present "biggest" First National Bank of St. Louis...
...Freshman hockey team won its fourth straight game of the season Saturday afternoon by defeating the New Preparatory School six by a 5 to 2 score in a hard-fought match on the Charles-bank rink. This is the first time this year that the 1932 outfit has been scored against and the New Preparatory sextet put up a close game throughout. The Crimson forwards appeared to better advantage than in any recent game but the defense line was not strong at times...