Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group he trusted best, eliminated the judges from consideration. Then it was: Reed, Minton or Black? Black, Minton or Reed? Stanley Reed has been a stanch defender of the New Deal before the very tribunal to which he might now be named, but Stanley Reed is also a bank director. Moreover, Kentucky is already represented on the bench by reactionary old James Clark McReynolds-at this thought Franklin Roosevelt may well have gritted his teeth. So Stanley Reed went out. Two Senators were left, men who might be easily confirmed by virtue of hoary "Senatorial courtesy," which presumes that every...
...time Greek wrestler, he has made a good living as head of a band of White Russian bravos who, according to rumor, have been doing Japan's dirty work for years in Manchukuo. In 1929 he collected $700,000 in Imperial Russian funds from the Yokohama Specie Bank. Fortnight ago he was reported responsible for a raid on the Soviet consulate in Tientsin. Peiping's alarm was caused by a new report that he was on his way to raid the Soviet's Peiping Embassy...
...have medical reports, following examinations of employes working in tear gas over long periods of time. These reports show no ill effects resulting from continuous presence with the gas in regular factory operation. We have discharged complete tear gas systems in scores of tests in banks to prove efficiency and harmlessness. In many such bank tests, over 100 people have been gassed with no ill effects. On 26 occasions, banks have released their Federal tear gas system and successfully stopped attempted holdups, driving the bandits from the bank. Customers and employes in the banks showed no after effects...
Died. Darwin Rush James, 64, president of Manhattan's East River Savings Bank, chairman of the New York State Housing Board; after a heart attack; in Riverhead...
...Jersey company which manufactures centrifuges. In 1928 Mr. Hammond and Philadelphia's Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Diddle Jr. were among the directors of Acoustic Products Co., which later became Sonora Products Corp. of America. When Sonora went bankrupt and Irving Trust Co. became its receiver, that Manhattan bank charged that Sonora's directors had personally used an option owned by the. company to buy De Forest Radio Co. stock for 50? a share, then selling the stock at market prices and pocketing fat profits. Harris Hammond and three other directors were found liable for more than...