Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, he had a succession of callers including Joseph Kennedy of the Maritime Commission; Chairman Douglas of the SEC; Board Chairman James Handasyd Perkins of Manhattan's National City Bank; Broker Paul Shields of Shields & Co.; William Averell Harriman, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad and head of the President's Business Advisory Council. That these business-minded visitors talked about means of easing up on New Deal restrictions on Business, both Franklin Roosevelt and his callers solemnly denied. Confronted by Washington reports of tax revision, the President avoided endorsing them. Instead, he told his press conference...
Newshawks found Joseph Wright Harriman, 70, onetime head of the Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. (TIME. March 27, 1933) who went to jail after his bank collapsed, is now paroled, working for a Long Island Ford and Lincoln dealer. Remuneration: $25 a week and commissions. Said local dealers: "He's a corking good salesman...
Stand-in Lester Plum (Joan Blondell) explains her functions to Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard), eastern efficiency expert who has come to Colossal studios as stand-in for a bank. Atterbury thinks of picture-making in terms of arithmetic and of picturemakers in terms of cogs and units. At first he occupies a suite in orchid and pale fudge in a famed hotel, but is driven by job-seekers and backslappers to refuge in the boarding house where Miss Plum lives with various cinema people who differ from the successes only in not having jobs. Gradually it dawns on Atterbury that...
Harvard, that ancient institution on the bank of the Thames, which Artemus Ward described "as pleasantly situated in the Parke House, School Street, Boston," is the next to be considered. And the staid Harvard lads do not fare too well under female inspection...
...permission from a local Soviet to build himself a private house. Armed with such permission, on which the project must be certified as a "small house" (what constitutes "small" being undefined), the fortunate Communist can still apply for and get a five-year building loan from the State bank...