Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, when the New Deal's appeal to "the underprivileged" was at its most ominous for people of "entrenched wealth," the First National Bank in Reno and the Nevada State Journal set out to promote Nevada as a sort of financial cyclone cellar. To a pedigreed list of 10,000 prospects they sent out a booklet in which the bank's former president, Governor Richard Kirman Sr.* presented to people of wealth sound fiscal reasons why they should become Nevada residents. Attorney General Gray Mashburn explained the simple legal steps required. And the booklet emphasized that "Nevada...
...into by his scraps with mean, 'fraid-cat Rodney Bitts (Jackie Morrow), the son of his dad's boss. Sent upstairs supperless, Penrod gets out of a whipping by swearing in his dad as a junior G-man. When a gang of crooks holds up the town bank and shoots a colored woman, mother of Penrod's friend and fellow G-man Verman (Phillip Hurlic, the junior G-men throw their efforts on the side of the law. As dramaturgy, the device of having Bank-robber Hanson (Craig Reynolds; and associates take refuge in the barn which...
Last week fantastic, near-sighted Dr. Franz Sarga of Budapest, who for four months has made fantastic dueling headlines in the world's press, at last got himself seriously wounded. He first succumbed to the dueling disease last November after four clerks, two bank managers, two lawyers and a landed proprietor insinuated that he had married his wife Magda "for her money." Black with rage, Dueler Sarga challenged all nine, fought two, wounded one. Round & round Budapest's night clubs afterward staggered Dueler Sarga, quaffing red wine, challenging all and sundry until the list of his opponents numbered...
...with success, Sarga last week followed up with another encounter, this time against George Vazsony, a bank employe, but not one of the original nine "insulters." Dueler Sarga again polished up his sabre, went out to tackle George because his mother had said catty things about Mrs. Sarga. For 90 minutes sabre clashed against sabre. After seven rounds Dr. Sarga got the surprise of his dueling career-a wound in the head. For seven more rounds he fought on until he had lost so much blood that he had to be carried off the field...
...monoplane is the most potent aerial fighting machine in the U. S.. has a 3,00-mi. range, 250-m. p. h. speed. Though a careless pilot crashed the first, the Army ordered 13 for $3,800,000. Two have been delivered.* This fat prize swelled the Boeing bank account, helped lift earnings from a 1935 loss of $333,800 to a profit of $131,700 for the first nine months of 1936. More important, it made the air lines sit up & take notice...