Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embassy in Russia, headed by First Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank of New York (including myself) ; YMCA and YWCA workers; trade representatives; and George Sokolsky, editor [at .that time! of the Russian Daily News...
...heavy-jowled Jew of 64, Herbert Fleishhacker made a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills, got into banking in 1907 by marrying the daughter of Sigmund Greenbaum, president of San Francisco's London, Paris & American Bank. Simon and Alexandre Lazard, Alsatian commission merchants who started Lazard Freres in San Francisco during the gold rush, in 1884 formed the London, Paris & American Bank to handle their interests when the firm moved to New York and Paris. Young Fleishhacker rose speedily to the top, but not solely because he married the boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker...
Unaccustomed to the American quirks of Herbert Fleishhacker was a little, button-eyed Frenchman named Etienne Lang, great-nephew of the late, great Parisian Banker David Cahn, who was sent from Paris to San Francisco in 1931 to look after the Anglo Bank interests of the Lazard family. Etienne Lang presently hired a private detective to conduct a secret investigation of Herbert Fleishhacker's affairs. On the basis of this investigation, Lang and his lawyer, a heavy-shouldered Los Angelean named Harold Morton, in 1933 brought suit against both Herbert Fleishhacker and the Anglo Bank in connection with...
...purpose, according to the defense, of spurring action in this case, another suit was brought in December 1934 by the Lazard family and certain other Anglo stockholders against Banker Herbert personally and the bank, charging in substance that he had used his position as Anglo president to wangle profits on the side for himself. This was the suit which last fortnight came to trial on the third floor of San Francisco's post-office building in the marble and plaster-cupid encrusted courtroom of Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure...
According to the complaint presented by Lawyer Morton, Herbert Fleishhacker in 1919 agreed to let the Anglo Bank lend M. Barde & Sons, Inc. of Seattle and Portland funds to buy steel from the U. S. Shipping Board, in return for which favor he was personally to get half the profits from the sale of the steel. Brothers J. N. and Leonard B. Barde presently received $325,000 from the Anglo Bank, another $175,000 from the Central National Bank of Oakland. The Bardes were successful in their bid for the steel, formed Barde Steel Products Corp. and before long repaid...