Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the National Housing Act of 1934, an individual could borrow up to $2,000 from a bank-with 20% of the principal guaranteed by the Government -to improve, repair or modernize his house. He could borrow up to $16,000 from a bank to build a new house-at 5% (in some cases 6%) interest, with the total mortgage guaranteed by the Government for a premium of at least .5% when the principal did not exceed 80% of the estimated value of the property. And ''V nited dividend corporations could get insurance on mortgages...
...other personal respects M. Debussy was equally Bohemian. A short-legged, thick-set man, seldom in funds, he was forever wandering indolently into Left Bank and Montmartre cafes. There he would sit in a cape and large felt hat, ordering rarebits and English ale, rolling his own cigarets. He preferred the circus to the opera, and disliked listening to music, though he accepted several jobs writing music criticism for Paris publications. He finally succumbed to cancer of the rectum one spring when Big Bertha was dropping shells into Paris...
Nurseryman Zielsdorf was apprised of his good fortune by "The Court of Missing Heirs," a bright radio idea of Skelly Oil Co. Aimed by Skelly Oil point-blank at that immense and sanguine section of the U. S. public which succumbs to bank night and sweepstakes tickets and dreams of unforeseen inheritances, the Court of Missing Heirs is not yet two months old but is already a radio success. Skelly filling stations are confined to the Midwest, so Skelly's Court of Missing Heirs is confined to 29 Columbia Broadcasting System and other Midwest stations. Dramatized each week...
...Though William Chapman Potter has been a banker since 1912. he started out as a mining engineer, ran Guggenheim affairs in Mexico for two years. He was elected president of Guaranty Trust Co. in 1921, chairman of the board in 1934. Last week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced that he had been elected a director, succeeding George W. Davison, chairman of Central Hanover Bank & Trust...
...married Polly Lauder, a Greenwich, Conn, steel heiress, took up Shakespeare, began making friends with businessmen and bankers. Soon he was a corporation director sitting on the boards of companies like New York Shipbuilding Corp. Last week he was elected director of another-Morris Plan Industrial Bank of New York...