Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Felix Vorenberg, another successful Boston merchant (perhaps not quite so rich), and Pierre Jay, then State Bank Commissioner, were both liberal enough to have sensed the potential value of Credit Unions for working people as far back as 1909, which was before Mr. Filene had become fully aware of the future possibilities of "talking liberally" about them. Had it not been for these pioneering crusaders, Massachusetts might never have had a Credit Union Law and Mr. Filene and his associates might not have had the cornerstone on which to build the National Credit Union Movement...
...Deserters of the Franc." There were 3,636 tons of gold in the Bank of France when the Popular Front took office last year, and of these only 2,504 tons remained last week, dramatically revealed new Finance Minister Georges Bonnet...
...several times been Finance Minister. Bonnet was sent to Washington last winter by Blum in the forlorn hope that he could wangle big money out of the New Deal. He rushed home last week aboard the Queen Alary, and immediately upon reaching Paris suspended gold payments by the Bank of France until he could go before Parliament to get plenary financial powers...
...last week was the second such record. With bone-dry formality it stated the decisions, votes and reasoning of the Board at 15 meetings during 1936, disclosed one surprising fact: the Board was not unanimous but divided on its most generally applauded action, the first, 50% increase in member bank reserve requirements, which took effect last August. The dissenters: Governors John Keown McKee and Chester Charles Davis. Whether they disagreed in whole or in part with the Board's consensus was not revealed. Whether or not they came around to Chairman Eccles' side when reserves were hiked...
...stock of this company, whose story would make a perfect Joseph Hergesheimer novel, has always been closely held but last week Birdsboro was granted permission to list 200,000 shares of no-par common on the New York Curb Exchange. Reasons: to provide extra working capital, pay off bank loans, redeem outstanding preferred stock, establish a price for the common stock for the convenience of present owners, mostly family members and widely scattered...