Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Bank Officers Guild and the Scottish Bankers Association jointly mobilized to get Justice for one W. E.Notman, a clerk dismissed by the Glasgow office of the Commercial Bank of Scotland. This bank, as many English banks used to do, operates on the theory that if a low-paid employe marries, the needs of his wife & children may sooner or later tempt him to pilfer money from the bank. Eleven years ago, when Clerk Notman was first employed, he was told that he could not marry until his salary had reached ?200 per year ($1,000). Two years...
...letter to Clerk Notman which was widely published in England and Scotland last week as a horrible example, the Head Office of the Commercial Bank advised him: 1) to wait six months, then apply for another raise; and 2) to start looking for a house "as the Bank could not approve of your settling in furnished rooms." Two months later manly Mr. Notman announced his intention to marry, was instantly fired, and last week seemed well on his way to become an heroic Captain Dreyfus of British banking as the Notman affair grew in notoriety and British bank guilds strove...
...listeners said they detested "ultramoder. -" music, and 19% cried out against jazz, the bankers' group hired the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, on a.three-year contract. Starting in November, the orchestra will serenade the U. S. public in a weekly concert under sponsorship of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, Chicago's First National. With each concert, the bankers will give what they consider an instructive talk. Beside the metropolitan giants, other banks in Des Moines, Detroit Cincinnati, other cities, will help pay for propaganda, Poet & Peasant and Fin gal's Cave...
...long job of rehabilitating Middle West, the old creditors put into the presidency long-headed Daniel Crandall Green, able, onetime vice president of Electric Bond & Share. The principal banks in whose portfolio Samuel Insull's empire had ended were Manhattan Bankers Trust with 568,000 shares (18%), and two Chicago banks, First National with 14% and Continental Illinois National Bank with 14%. The RFC had taken over the 5% holdings of Central Republic Trust...
...Chicago, glib, young polo-playing Charles Foster Glore, president of Chicago Corp. as well as a partner in the brokerage house of Field, Glore & Co., told newshawks that Chicago Corp., an investment company, and A. G. Becker & Co., investment bankers, had bought Continental Illinois National Bank's holdings in Middle West Corp. Chicago Corp. takes three-fifths of the purchase, Becker & Co the rest. The price: $12 a share, giving Continental, in which Chicago Corp. has large holdings, a small profit on its once forlorn investment in Middle West Corp...