Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate's Finance Committee, the President recommended amending the Social Security Act to provide standard payments for 1,100,000 additional prospective beneficiaries, including 175,000 national & certain other bank employes, 180,000 seamen, and 800,000 persons, now 60 or more who, by the existing statute, would get a small lump sum payment instead of annuities...
...bulkhead. While the crew and refugee passengers, many of them wounded, were being taken ashore in small boats, the planes machine-gunned them, then veered off to bomb three Standard Oil tankers. The refugees, fearful of more attacks, lay freezing in the muck & reeds of the river bank when Japanese motorboats appeared, fired a couple of belts of machine gun bullets into the Panay, boarded her and finally left her to sink. Two hours and 20 minutes after the attack began the Panay capsized and sank. Not until long after dark, by devious routes, some carrying their wounded on borrowed...
Many a San Franciscan last week learned for the first time that one of his city's most famed financiers and business men, President Herbert Fleishhacker of Anglo California National Bank, had been sued by stockholders of the bank "to obtain an accounting and recover secret profits on behalf of said bank." When his case went to trial in San Francisco's post-office building last summer (TIME, Sept. 6), no San Francisco newspaper cared to mention the fact. Last week, however, when Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure finally handed down his decision, local papers could...
...case involved transactions dating back to 1919, in which M. Barde & Sons of Seattle and Portland was engaged in the resale of Government steel left over from the War. According to their testimony, three years ago certain Anglo Bank stockholders, mostly members of the great French banking group Lazard Freres, discovered that Banker Fleishhacker had the Anglo Bank lend the Bardes $325,000 to finance the deal but had kept for himself some $300,000 other monies which the Bardes gave him after they had traded the steel...
That Banker Fleishhacker's suits are not ended was evident also in another quarter, Los Angeles, where the same group of angry Lazard Freres heirs is suing Banker Fleishhacker. the Anglo Bank and others for $1,250,000 damages from the sale in 1915-17 of the Lazard oil lands in Kern County, Calif. Banker Fleishhacker stoutly maintains that he was ill at the time and therefore had nothing to do with details of the sale except that he approved it. Asked on the stand if he had ever conspired to defraud Lazard Freres, Herbert Fleish-hacker declared: "Never...