Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beyond that Phelps Smith said little, leaving the rest to his two executors, the Adirondack National Bank & Trust Co. and Attorney John M. Cantwell, of Malone, both well trained to accept the Smith word as law. Last week no Adirondack native doubted that Paul Smith's College of Arts & Sciences would soon be a proud reality...
...whatever, the plane ahead was wallowing. A wing would go down five degrees, then wobble back as the other wing dipped. The wallow grew worse. While Wilkins and his co-pilot watched in stricken silence, Capt. Bohnet's plane rolled over on one side as if about to bank, went completely out of control and dived 500 ft. straight down. Wilkins, an old friend of Bohnet, looked away at the last instant, but his co-pilot saw the ship smash into the ground, break into a twisted wreck like a disemboweled fish...
Commercial paper was boosted from f of i% to a flat 1%-first change since April 1934. Bankers' acceptances were hiked not once but twice, bringing the rate to its highest point in three years and slightly above the figure offered by the Federal Reserve Banks ( ½of 1%). However, the Federal Reserve not only refused to up its acceptance buying rate to the open market level but actually bought some bankers' ½ bills, for the first time in more than two years, thus flashing its clear distaste for the strength of the money market. When it increased...
...from the peopling of the prairies to the rise of lumber and newsprint, the wealth of Canada tended to flow through Montreal. Some of that wealth always came to rest in the snug little mansions at the foot of Mount Royal, and Montreal became about as venturesome as the Bank of England...
...wealth if not in prestige the open-handed Toronto millionaires are a match for Montreal's best. Richest man in Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...