Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Help Wanted. On his way to the convention, A. B. A. President Robert Vedder Fleming of Washington's Riggs Bank had stopped off in Spokane, Wash, long enough to get himself named "Chief Black Hawk" by the Flathead Indians. This warlike title he bore gracefully. Mr. Fleming, amiable and solid as he is jolly, reminded the bankers that during the year Congress and the Administration had given A. B. A. "courteous and attentive consideration." Banks had been excluded from the provisions of the law taxing undistributed earnings. "Splendid cooperation" had been received from the Government in a survey aimed...
...monopoly on good temper. Off the convention floor the delegates were cheered by a round of festivities including two boat rides around San Francisco Bay, a grand banquet and ball at the Palace Hotel, a golf tournament at the Olympic Club's Lakeside course. Amadeo Giannini's Bank of America, biggest U. S. bank west of Manhattan, outdid itself in the matter of hospitality. To each of the bankers' ladies on the night of the formal ball, Bank of America sent a corsage of two orchids. To each of the bankers it dispatched a neat package...
...more than a year one of A. B. A.'s great public purposes has been to "take the mystery out of banking," ingratiate the U. S. Banker with the U. S. Citizen. To the convention last week went General Foods' lean President Clarence Francis with evidence that efforts had better be redoubled. President Francis had partial results of a survey made among 7,400 bank presidents and 50,000 "cross-section consumers." The evidence: 34% of the consumers thought they were better treated by shopkeepers than by bankers, 57% believed bankers were not doing their bit in Recovery...
...regular line of succession. When elections came round, however, not a murmur arose against either Mr. Adams or the hand-picked banker nominated to succeed him in 1938-Philip Adolphus Benson. A likable middle-of-the-roader, Banker Benson has been president of Brooklyn's Dime Savings Bank for four years, is 54, small, bright-eyed, quiet and an assiduous speaker on Thrift...
...president for the coming year is Tom K. Smith of St. Louis' Boatmen's National Bank. Banker Smith is unlikely to depart from Mr. Fleming's policy of friendship with a Democratic Administration. A Democrat himself, he served for a while under Secretary Morgenthau as a Treasury adviser. White-haired, ruddy well-brushed President Smith wears his Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain, said last week: "I am convinced that there is no problem in banking confronting us today which research, education and co-operation cannot solve. They are the bulwarks upon which I base...