Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Optimistic were the 1937 economic surveys of China's great Shanghai banks. They pointed out that New Year's is the day on which Chinese businessmen expect each other to have all outstanding debts settled, rejoiced that 1937's dread "settlement day" last week brought not a single Shanghai business or bank failure. As every Chinese shivers to recall, the 1935 and 1936 settlement days bristled with seemingly catastrophic bankruptcies, "but China, like England, always muddles through...
...Dinners a $1,000 check signed "Alfred M. Landon,' Democratic National Chairman James Aloysius Farley, observed: "That does seem to make it unanimous," soon learned that the check had not been signed by the defeated GOPresidential nominee or by anyone else who had an account at the designated bank...
...Down to her new office in Trenton bright & early went the only woman bank president in New Jersey and probably the prettiest bank president in the land. Her election to that job in Trenton Trust Co. was no gushing matter to green-eyed, graceful Mary Gindhart Roebling. Briskly she got the jump on local newshawks by asking them if they were depositors in Trenton Trust...
...woman representative on New Jersey's new State Unemployment Compensation Commission, finance chairman of Trenton's Maternal Health Center, director of the Mercer County Health League. No lover of publicity, she is careful to point out that there are about 4,500 women officers in U. S. banks, 75 of them bank presidents...
Gauguin did not suddenly abandon his family and go off to seek his painting fortune. But his art became more & more demanding of his time and interest, until one day, when he was 33, he informed Mette he had left the bank for good. She was thunderstruck. They had to move out of Paris to save money. After eight restless months in Rouen, Mette suggested they go to Denmark while they still had enough for the trip. Gauguin agreed. In Denmark his in-laws received him coldly, looked down on him still further when Mette had to start giving French...