Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polling place, where he was registered as "A. M. Landon, oil and gas business," Alf Landon & wife cast blank ballot after blank ballot for the photographers. On the way to the two-room office with "Alf M. Landon" on the doors of the Citizens National Bank Building, the Nominee had to stop time & again to shake hands with old friends. Most of them called him "Alf" or "Governor," but a few addressed him as "Mr. President...
...accountant named James Everett Butler as comptroller. In February the college treasurer, Brother Josephus, informed Comptroller Butler that supervision of athletic accounts was not included in the agreement. When the Brothers persistently refused to discuss their football business, the committee last week asked bondholders permission to have the Central Bank of Oakland declare the bonds in default, institute foreclosure proceedings...
Iceman Mason is no novice at motor making. After graduating from the University of Michigan as a business-trained engineer (Class of 1913), he went into Studebaker's manufacturing division, then switched to Dodge. After the War he did a turn in a Manhattan bank, leaving to help Walter P. Chrysler with the metamorphosis of old Maxwell Motor into Chrysler Corp. For four years he was Chrysler's works manager. Then restless Mr. Mason quit the motor industry for the second time, entering Kelvinator at the top after a brief term as president for another refrigerator maker...
Antoine de Paris, popped into Lloyds Bank for money and on visiting her new house to inspect the decoration, indulged in some hocus-pocus with the hall lights, said to have been devised by Bodyguardsman David Storier. When the hall light gave two short winks and one long, that meant that Chauffeur Ladbrooke was to start up the royal Buick and with engine buzzing open the door for Mrs. Simpson to dash from house...
...William Haade, 33, who before his appearance in Iron Men never set foot on a stage in his life. Mr. Kaade is a crack steelworker. Boss of his gang, he put up steel on Manhattan's Barbizon-Plaza and Pierre Hotels, Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., and Bank of Manhattan buildings. River side Church, Lincoln Hospital. He is a member of the International Association of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers, Local No. 40. He and his German wife have two young sons. He likes to talk about steelwork, his sons, his dog. He is boisterous, friendly, stubborn, generous...