Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Banks. During 1928 the Bank of United States (Manhattan) accumulated by merger the following: Central Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. (six branches), Cosmopolitan Bank (four units), City Financial Corp. Last week it bought stock control of the Colonial Bank (16 branches), bringing its total resources to $260,000,000, its chain to 36 banking units...
...landing dock and general water front development on the Business School bank of the Charles River is under consideration by the University, according to information gathered yesterday. Students in the School of Landscape Architecture have been drawing up plans for the development, which will be in the form of a dock for boats coming up the river, surrounded by a stone embankment with lights and a flag. Several of the designs incorporated also a built-up embankment on the Memorial Driver side, between the Weeks and Lars Anderson Bridges...
Similarly, the opposite bank of the Charles may lie fallow until the growth around it has taken shape, when new uses will undoubtedly arise for it. That part of it back from the river, behind Baker Library, might, however, be put to immediate as a site for the power plant which must be erected to supply Harvard with heat and light. Already the Weeks Bridge carries the pipes for the service of the Business School. The same ducts might be employed for the passage of conduits from a main plant located in Alliston. Other plots of University-owned ground available...
Bankers. Search for the new leader might possibly centre along La Salle St., Chicago's banking street. Here are the Reynolds brothers, George McClelland Reynolds and Arthur Reynolds, who last September (TIME, Sept. 17) merged their Continental National Bank & Trust Co. with Eugene M. Stevens' Illinois Merchants Trust Co. to make the second largest U. S. bank. The Reynolds brothers, however, are money makers rather than law makers, and Banker Stevens belongs to the comparatively younger generation. There is also Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, onetime Texan, head of Chicago's First National Bank...
Another millionaire made his mark in aviation last week. Paul Wadsworth Chapman, Manhattan investment banker, had watched the profitable aviation promotion of Elisha Walker (Blair Co.), Charles Hayden and Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co.), Charles E. Mitchell and Gordon S. Rentschler (National City Bank, Manhattan). Jansen Noyes (Hemphill. Noyes & Co.). James C. Willson (Louisville), Thomas N. Dysart (Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis), Clement Melville Keys (Manhattan). He had watched recent mergers in the industry: Fokker and Western Air Express. Transcontinental Air Transport. Curtiss Corporations and Sikorsky. Keystone and Loening, Pratt and Whitney. Boeing and Niles, Bement and Pond...