Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showmanship which in eleven years has enabled the bustling but prematurely grey Publisher McCraken to turn a few thousand dollars of borrowed money into an estimated 65% ownership of a strong chain of five Wyoming daily papers worth some $750,000, a directorship in the American National Bank, the vice presidency of Cheyenne's moneymaking Plains Hotel, a growing reputation as a natty, smalltown, journalistic inventor whose technique is spreading through the mountain States...
...cold night in January 1919, eight reckless Tennessee soldiers (one of them Colonel Luke Lea. Nashville publisher who later went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Asheville, N. C. Central Bank & Trust Co. of over $1,300,000) failed in a self-appointed, harebrained attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm from his Netherlands retreat. Censured by General John J. Pershing. they swore among themselves not to tell their story for 15 years. Three weeks ago the Saturday Evening Post featured their escapade as told to Truman Hudson Alexander, veteran Nashville Teunessean columnist who had diligently tried since 1934 to ferret...
Last week's Federal excursion into Medicine was such, however, that orthodox private practitioners were outraged. For the benefit of 2,517 employes of the Federal Home Loan Bank board and affiliated agencies in Washington, that Federal institution financed a Group Health Association. This corporation hired a onetime executive of the Veterans' Administration, Dr. Henry Rolf Brown, and five other doctors, and last week started to give its members virtually every sort of medical, surgical, nursing and hospital care they might need.* Its fee (cash in advance) : $2.20 per month for unmarried persons, $3.30 for married couples...
...White Sulphur, meanwhile, in the cool halls of the rambling Greenbrier Hotel, 565 I.B.A. members began many a ponderous investigation into the fundamental causes for such fiascos as the Pure Oil issuance. Since 1929, when new capital issues reached a staggering $8,639,000,000, investment banking has been but a shadow of its former self, refusing to revive along with business recovery. Only refunding has been on the rise. In 1929 refunding amounted to $1,387,000,000. Last year new financing was a paltry $1,190,000,000 and refunding was all of $3,300,000,000. Behind...
...latest story tells of Kip Caley, bank robber and desperado, who, while serving time for one of his jobs, suddenly decides to go straight. A fellow of huge frame and equally mighty enthusiasms, he turns over his new page with all the gusto of a Billy Sunday, joins prison Bible classes, uplifts fellow convicts. The reform of so notable a character attracts wide attention, and soon newspapers, hometown politicians, even a Senator join in a successful campaign for his release. Paroled, Kip Caley strides out into the world again, too happy in his freedom, too exalted by his recent conversion...