Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overpass. Men with queazy stomachs had no place one afternoon last week on the overpass-across the street to street car tracks-at the No. 4 gate of Henry Ford's great River Rouge plant. The union had opened its Ford campaign by hiring two vacant bank buildings near the plant, as headquarters. Next step was to print handbills calling for "Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8 six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6 eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step...
Like the late John Dillinger, Al Brady is an Indiana bad boy who got in trouble young, was let out of jail on parole. Also like Dillinger, he took to cracking banks and shooting police as soon as he got out. At 27, he and his three henchmen-James Dalhover, Clarence Shaffer, Charles Geisking-are wanted for nine stickups, robberies and jail escapes, for murdering an officer in Anderson, another in Indianapolis, a clerk in Piqua, Ohio. Like Dillinger, Brady has staged a spectacular jail break, and last week Brady, Dalhover and Shaffer added a fillip to their record...
...best, perhaps, to follow my few primitive rules. As a "locus operandi" take, for instance, the Charles: an excellent feeding ground. The first trick should be the undulation of the hand, the wink of the old eye, and a broad smile. If you walk the whole length of the bank and repeat these motions without any recognition, immediately change to the "information" method; approach a lass and ask her the whereabouts of Hunt Hall or the Union. That failing, borrow your roommate's car, a police whistle, and several companions and cruise along Memorial Drive, making as much turmoil...
Northern Baptists. Most famed president the Northern Baptist Convention ever elected was Charles Evans Hughes (1908). Last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall met 5,000 Northern Baptist dele gates under the presidency of Herbert B. Clark, president of the North Adams (Mass.) National Bank, director in a half-dozen New England firms. Big, bald Banker Clark traveled 45,000 miles during his year in office, acquired a new pulpit manner speaking in hundreds of churches. Member of a rich Berkshire family (his father gave his old pastor $25,000 when that man of God retired), Banker Clark...
Some of the criticism has been caused by the fact that insurance companies took advantage of the 1933 bank moratorium to declare a moratorium of their own (on demands for cash). Of course, the insurance moratorium was theoretically imposed by State insurance superintendents but the legal grounds were so shaky that not a few policyholders got their cash in full by merely threatening...