Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid bills on the hook!" (see cut). Since he landed, the Ambassador has cut French expenditures by six billion francs ($222,000,000), imposed ten and a half billions in new taxes ($388,500,000), and last week he slapped "on the hook" a new contract with the Bank of France. Under this the Bank's gold stocks were revalued more nearly to correspond with the depreciated value of the franc, thus effecting a "profit" of six billions earmarked by M. Bonnet as a fund for defense of the franc and Government bonds...
...more incident in a long, unacknowledged rivalry between the Mellons and Pittsburgh's second most powerful family. Founded by the late, hard-driving John Hartwell Hillman Sr., who cast cannon balls during the Civil War and moved to Pittsburgh from Tennessee, the Hillman coke-iron-coal-banking-industrial empire now extends over six States. John Hartwell Hillman Jr., who was born in tiny Trigg Furnace, Ky., 57 years ago, is a director in a score of banks, steel companies and other corporations including Pittsburgh's First National Bank and the Chemical Bank & Trust Co. In late years...
Last week Judge Elder W. Marshall in Pittsburgh's Court of Common Pleas handed down his decision, ordering Pittsburgh United to liquidate enough of its U. S. Steel holdings to pay off $1,227,187 in bank loans made by Pittsburgh's First National and the Chemical Bank & Trust Co. With the U. S. Steel common which had been held as collateral for these loans, he ordered Peoples-Pittsburgh to redeem Pittsburgh United preferred and in 30 days to turn over its remaining assets to Pittsburgh United. Immediately the preferred jumped from...
Even more shocking to Judge Barnes was "the lack of care manifested by the officers of the Harris Trust & Savings Bank in the selection of this new manager." The speed with which the bankers acted and the lack of care in picking their representative, held the judge, were "equaled or exceeded by the diligence with which Mr. Skinner proceeded to tear down and destroy the organization, business and goodwill" of the old brewery...
...Colin Campbell, 30, son of Nancy, lives in California where he is an official in a cement machine business. Cecil John Arthur Howard, 29, son of Marguerite, lives regularly in London, is at present in California recuperating from illness. Last week all three were suing the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., trustee of the estate, asking that the Chicago residence and work provisions be vacated since there is really no work to do in connection with the Leiter estate. Named as co-defendants are Levi Leiter's seven grandchildren...