Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul van Zeeland stick. After examining the mud slung (TIME, Sept. 13), the Senate upheld Professor van Zeeland 121-to-6 and the Chamber, vindicating him 130-to-34, hailed his "integrity and disinterestedness." In agreeing that van Zeeland had a perfect right to receive $11,250 from the Bank of Belgium as a "bonus" for work he did before becoming Premier, Belgium's legislators sharply indicated that the Bank's statutes must be changed to make such bonuses impossible hereafter. Alone were Rexist newsorgans in screaming that in freely testifying he had received $11,250 the Premier...
...robust British Dominions. He was born 41 years ago on a St. Thomas farm of sturdy Scotch-Irish stock. After public schooling, which finished with the St. Thomas Collegiate Institute, the farmer boy, aged only 17, proudly became a cashier in a small branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce...
...State Senator Noble Getchell gave him a half interest in a low-grade surface mine near Winnemucca where they are now building a gold mill due to begin operations about the first of the year. Board Chairman William Henry Crocker of San Francisco's Crocker First National Bank is generally believed to have taken over an $800,000 mortgage on the two hotels, held it until "King George" could regain his feet...
...other indications that fall business would be good, that the trend is still upward, the trend of prices still toward inflation. Commodities might indeed be falling, but that was a logical outcome of bumper crops which would still leave farmers with the biggest income in years. Industrial and agricultural bank loans attained the highest figure in five years ($620,000,000), while airconditioning equipment production, cigaret sales and electric power output were at all-time peaks. Moreover, retail sales were zooming happily. Payrolls were still fattening. In view of such indices the prospect for fall business looked much like...
...TIME, Aug. 16). Since Transamerica for years had been the busiest stock on the San Francisco Exchange, this gave brokers, already scratching for commissions, a real matter for worry. The squabble grew out of old "A. P.'s" decision to turn Transamerica, once the world's largest bank holding company, into an investment trust. One move of this program was a splicing of Transamerica stock, one share for two, reclassined from no par to $2 par. When the San Francisco Exchange took occasion to criticize this maneuver, "A. P." did not apply for a continuance of Transamerica...