Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks, Proprietor Hurd, to be on the safe side, called the Bangor police. The Bangor police called the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington. To the F.B.I. Mr. Kurd's description of his customers sounded exactly like Al Brady, Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr. and James Dalhover, notorious midwest bank robbers, who liked to boast that John Dillinger was only a "creampuff" bandit. These diminutive badmen (all three between 5 ft. 5 in. and 5 ft. 6 in. tall) escaped from a Greenfield, Ind. jail on Oct. 11, 1936, left a trail that grew cold near Bridgeport, Conn...
When the Boston fire of 1872 threatened to destroy the First National Bank, its cash was removed for several days and worried bankers set up a day & night watch over it. Meanwhile they were fed by Boston's famed Parker House. One day last week the Parker House again went to the First National's assistance. Ten minutes after closing, workmen set about removing grills, glass desk tops, accounting machines and money from the bank's vaulted granite lobby and into their place went 12,000 glasses, 700 trays, 2,000 qt. of liquor...
Significant was the fact that the week's outstanding banking blast against Washington came from Rochester instead of from Boston. Apparently to avoid implicating the A. B. A., Banker Winthrop W. Aid-rich, chairman of New York's Chase National Bank, chose a luncheon meeting of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce as a rostrum for the most outspoken if not the most original attack upon the New Deal since the current market crash began. In a concise analysis of the situation which warmed the hearts of Wall Street, Banker Aldrich repeated and amplified the assertions made by President...
...Kellogg shop and onto two of the ten longest (55-ft.) flatcars in the world. Railroad curves, bridges and tunnels between Jersey City and Whiting did not permit freightage of Stanolind's tank. So the Lehigh Valley R.R. hauled it two miles to the west bank of the Hudson. All traffic on the railroad had to stop while this went...
...Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan's previous forays had been characterized by double-dealing on the part of all concerned, but in this one the cards are on the table: he knows that unless he kills them first the four will most certainly kill...