Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Manley Smith, president of Marble Savings Bank of small Rutland, Vt., learned that John J. Cocklin, a bookkeeper, had embezzled $251,000 from the bank's savings deposits, lost most of it in the stockmarket. A descendant of pioneer Vermont settlers, Banker Smith quickly reasoned that $250,000 would seem an almost astronomical figure to frugal Rutland depositors, that publication of the loss might cause a ruinous run on his bank. With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits. Consequently the bank pursued...
...along the sidewalk near the Trust Company of Georgia building in downtown Atlanta. Neither was aware that they were being followed by Edward E. Conroy, Atlanta chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and several of his G-Men. When the two men were a few yards from the bank the G-Men pounced. One pinned the old man's arms while the others scuffled with the younger man. Before the youth was subdued a G-Man was knocked to the sidewalk, had to dodge a revolver that was thrown at him. The scuffle over, the G-Men took...
...prisoners, G-Man Conroy said, would be held for arraignment under the National Bank Robbery Act, with an additional charge entered against Son Marshall of resisting a Federal officer. Evidence against them, he said, would include $22,500, the revolver, an empty holster found on William Moyers, $5,500 found on Son Marshall...
...sandstone on the bank of the Connecticut River near Holyoke, Mass., Professor Edward Hitchcock of Amherst studied some curious footprints which had been called to his attention, advanced the theory that they were those of huge prehistoric birds. That was in 1858. Later scientists definitely attributed the tracks to Triassic dinosaurs of various sizes and unknown species. Some 20 individual prints were visible, ranging in length from three to 18 inches. The biggest tracks and the longest strides indicated that the largest lizard was 25 ft. long. The trustees of Massachusetts Public Reservations bought the surrounding land from its owner...
...Madrid, which reached its 31st day this week, but meanwhile Soviet munitions were arriving to bolster the cause of proletarian Premier Francisco Largo Caballero who fled with his Cabinet from Madrid to Valencia (TIME, Nov. 16), and the enormous quantity of gold which his adherents took from the Bank of Spain was beginning to have its effect. It was established last week that disguised Spanish fishing smacks, heavily armed, have been regularly running this gold to Marseille. The Bank of France has been buying it as fast as presented, and in the name of Largo Caballero and other Spanish Marxians...