Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Increased taxes sounds easy but it isn't. . . . The turnip is dry. The Administration has only two real alternatives-to cut spending or to print money. If the price of Government bonds should take a serious nose dive, we would have a new bank holiday-or else. The assets of banks, trusts and insurance companies are loaded with them. The Government would almost certainly be forced to make them redeemable at par-in paper money-the ultimate spilling of the beans. The President is no fiat money man. That leaves only reduced spending. But isn't that political...
...assigned to the bureau at Kansas City, Mo. Last week he was at work on his first important case. He and two other agents went to the post office at Topeka, hung around for three days waiting for Alfred Power (alias Gerald Lewis alias Thomas Malley), New York bank robber, to claim a package at the general delivery window...
Month ago the Northern Westchester Bank of Katonah, N. Y. was stuck up. The robbers got away with $18,000. In Manhattan, Thomas Malley had registered a black Plymouth coupé, license 4Y-7607. That was the car in which a man had been making calls at the post office in Topeka. If he came back, the general delivery clerk was to give the tip-off to Agent Baker. On the third noon of Agent Baker's vigil, the clerk gave the signal...
...memorandum mimeographed, sent copies to Nazi bigwigs, other bankers, manufacturers, without comment other than a request for their personal opinions. That done Dr. Schacht stepped into a plane and hopped quickly to Brussels where he was elaborately welcomed by King Leopold, the Governor of the National Bank of Belgium and Premier Paul van Zeeland...
...fest alluded to above, shows the other side of life, with James Dunn and Sally Eilers co-starring in an international money smuggle that has dialogue that sparkles like champagne. And after outwitting an international gangster, who looks very much like a former head of the Chase Bank who shall go nameless, and a magnificent French detective, the two wind up in Monte Carlo, in each other's arms of course...