Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulls-eye his arrows, after dipping them in pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write all the good speeches for the President, his Cabinet, his leaders...
...fill the Museum of Modern Art, France has not only ransacked her best collections but caused even the Bank of France to disgorge a few masterpieces from its ornate salons, sacred hitherto to such connoisseurs as Dr. Schacht. Cabled hard-boiled Manhattan Sunman Henry McBride, last week after looking out from the new Trocadero Palace: "Surely the view one gets from this terrace is one of the most glittering and stirring prospects now to be obtained anywhere in the world...
Back in San Francisco after frolicking at the famed annual outdoor tycoon bust of San Francisco's Bohemian Club. John P, Bickell, mining speculator and director of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, celebrated Wall Street bear, backer of the Merrill-Lambie Coronation flight, were walking down Post Street toward Union Square. Said Speculator Smith: "I feel like taking a trip." Replied Banker Bickell: "That's a great idea. I'll go anywhere you want ." At that moment they were opposite the St. Francis Hotel which houses the offices...
...steps of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, Calif., at 10 a. m. sharp last Friday a group of 40 people, including several newshawks, photographers and sidewalk loungers, assembled for an auction. Bespectacled Trust Officer Sylow Berven of Oakland's Central Bank began to read in a low drone from a thick typewritten sheaf of papers. In 15 minutes his audience had dwindled to ten people. An urchin went around begging nickels, got only one. At 10:49 Mr. Berven finished his reading and called out: "Do I hear any bid for Parcel No. i. ... ?" He heard nothing...
Elected-John Stewart Baker, board chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co.: to be President of the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York, succeeding Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who resigned after having held the position since...