Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, the Merrimac Chemical Company, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Stone and Webster, Inc., the Old Colony Trust Company, the Southern Pacific Company, the First National Bank of Boston, and numerous other companies...
Died. William Henry Crocker, 76, San Francisco banker, onetime president of the Crocker First National Bank; in Hillsborough, Calif. Banker Crocker, a conservative Republican, was once a political arch-enemy of Hiram Johnson. When Charles Evans Hughes made his ill-fated 1916 Presidential campaign visit to California, Banker Crocker was credited with being largely responsible for his failure to meet Hiram Johnson, an omission which according to political legend kept Candidate Hughes from being elected President...
...trying Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Concessionnaires sold to the 60,000 daily sightseers 10? replicas of the kidnap ladder, reporters adjourned to Nellie's Tap Room, after filing a million words daily, to sing a parody of the German Schnitzel-bank song about the ransom note and the baby's sleeping garment, and Edward J. Reilly took the defense with small chance of pay because "it's a criminal lawyer's dream of a case." To millions of decent U. S. citizens the Flemington trial seemed more like...
Vanderbilt then dominated the swift rising New York Central. His chief rival was the Pennsylvania, but both railroads kept to their own backyards until a scandalously promoted third line, the West Shore, began paralleling Vanderbilt's tracks along the west bank of the Hudson to the Port of New York. Angry clear through he decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build...
...defense of the notorious black-eyed Peggy Eaton; his strong-armed solution to the problem of South Carolina's attempted secession; collection of a long-outstanding debt of 25 million francs from France by the simple device of threatening to dispatch warships; his ungloved fight to overthrow the Bank of the United States; his support of Protégé Sam Houston in the fight to annex Texas ("about which," says Author James, "the less said by Jackson partisans the better...