Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purple on the bench sat the Hon. Sir Albert Charles Clauson, C.B.E. Before him was a case in which stockholders of Haile Selassie's defunct Bank of Ethiopia were attempting to regain possession of certain securities, admittedly held by the National Bank of Egypt in Cairo, against the Italian-appointed liquidator of the Bank of Ethiopia, one Wladimiro Liguori. Plaintiffs brought in evidence a decree signed by Emperor Haile Selassie from his exile at Bath...
...retirement of Dr. Cole and the appointment of Dr. Rivers called attention to a little known but important section of a well known research foundation. Two structures separated from the larger buff brick Institute building which sits among a grove of young sycamores on the bank of Manhattan's East River, the hospital is like few others in the world. Sixty-nine patients can be accommodated, but seldom are there more than 45. At their services are 35 medical specialists, a staff of trained nurses, all the laboratory facilities of the entire Institute. And no patient's money...
...sports page in his old green armchair complains, these thoughts tend to the sentimental and the florid, but how else would one think of Spring? Would one peek out the window, sec leaves waving on trees, lawnmowers on the grass, and merely cry, "Swell"? Would one stroll along either bank of the Charles, search the darkness for couples increasing the pleasure of the night, and, but sigh? At least, one should do more than sigh...
...evening, Manhattan financial writers got a further taste of how the self-styled "babes" in the Van Sweringen corporate woods do business. After munching sandwiches and drinking coffee in Mr. Young's tapestried dining room, newshawks met short, grey Frank B. Bernard of Muncie's Merchants National Bank, who will represent the Ball Foundation on Alleghany Corp.'s board. Next to be introduced was ruddy-faced, bald-pated Charles Leininger Bradley, chairman of the Erie R. R. and one of the late Oris Paxton Van Sweringen's closest associates. He will be Alleghany's president...
...Senator Charley Squires of Mishawauka, the story's 59-year-old hero, had a private law practice in Washington which netted him $60,000 a year. He lived in a Tudor house, had a nice nestegg in a London bank, stood in well with his party's national committee, had built up good-will by planting the right people in every bureau and department in the Capital. A widower for many years, he let friendly rich widows assist with the social side of his career. At home he was pampered by his beautiful 27-year-old daughter Darnell...