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Word: bankes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rarely put in an appearance rolled up in full force, jam-packed the House so thickly that Laborite M.P. Richard Gibson had to take refuge in one of the galleries with a host of peers, foreign diplomats and other bigwigs, including the famed economist Sir Josiah Stamp and Bank of England's eccentric Governor Montagu Norman. So staggering was the Budget speech which all were keyed up to hear that Montagu Norman was reported next day to have "looked bewildered as if he could not follow or believe what he heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Soak-the-Rich | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

This week on the eve of the new parliamentary session the furrows in Premier Blum's brow grew deeper. So apprehensive was the Paris Bourse that Bank of France stocks dropped 585 francs ($26), nearly one-tenth of their value. Meantime 30,000 small storekeepers assembled angrily in the capital to denounce Premier Blum's two-days-a-week closing order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Blum's Blues | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Good Old Soak (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Old Clem Hawley (Wallace Beery) is a likable small-town toper, whose worst sin is getting drunk with his crony, Al (Ted Healy), and Mrs. Hawley's hired girl. Young Clem Hawley (Eric Linden) is an obnoxious young bank clerk who steals his mother's savings to repay money embezzled from the till to buy summer ermine for a night club dancer. Ostracized by his wife and suspected of his son's theft, Old Clem Hawley shows what he is made of. He explodes his son's romance with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 3, 1937 | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Crews are listed in the order in which they will race--the first crew listed in each race being nearest the Cambridge bank of the River, the last nearest Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Favored Over Rutgers and Tech | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

Best place to watch the race: Along the Cambridge bank near the finish or on the Massachusetts Ave Bridge. Crews will pass through the seventh and eighth arches out from the Cambridge shore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Favored Over Rutgers and Tech | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

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