Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts about Andrew Mellon, other than his fortune, were exceedingly simple. Born at Pittsburgh in 1855, he was the son of a hard-headed Tyrone County Scotch-Irishman who -"ounded the banking house of T. Mellon & Sons. At 18, Andrew quit Western University of Pennsylvania to start a lumber business with his 15-year-old brother, Dick. When the lumber business succeeded, first Andrew and then Brother Richard joined the bank, which they built into the $380,000,000 Mellon National Bank. In the next 40-some years, Andrew Mellon multiplied the Mellon capital...
Landing effected on the bank of the Yangtze northwest of Shanghai, the Japanese pushed southward on a broad front trying to catch the Chinese army in a pincers, of which their own forces in Shanghai were the other prong. General Pai Tsung-hsi promptly began to retire to the west, covering the railroad to Nanking...
...Manhattan last week the U. S. Government won the right to reopen a claim involving $4,976,722 against Guaranty Trust Co. That sum was on deposit at the Guaranty Trust by the Russian Government Dec. 17, 1917. On Feb. 25, 1918 the bank closed the account, charging against it sums of money which were then due it from the Russian Government as successor to certain nationalized concerns which had been in debt to the bank. When, by the Litvinov Agreement of 1933, Russia turned over its accounts to the U. S., the Guaranty Trust claimed...
...letters were running about 50-50 on the subject when R. W. Alston whose inquiring mind had profited by the August bank holiday offered a new idea: "Recently I visited the seaside and was flattered to find myself the object of attentive curiosity until I realized that the ladies who met me with arched eyebrows were not surprised or delighted, but merely plucked and therefore incapable of any other expression...
...with the sissies." Sickened by the perversion he saw all around him, Mansell was helped out by big, tough Bill Weldon, doing a five-year stretch for robbery, who told him that most lifers crack in the first month, drew him into a circle of accomplished thieves, big-time bank robbers, Socialists. This organization centred at the carpenter shop, was respected by the guards, smuggled in tobacco and books, got its members transferred to the best jobs by wire-pulling as elaborate as any in ward politics. But to keep in with the group that made prison life bearable called...