Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose Premier made a mysterious flight to Italy; Spain, where General Franco set up a new Cabinet; Italy, where economic conditions were reported increasingly bad and where some mysterious reversal upset the maneuvers of the Army of the Po; The Netherlands, shaken with political crises, a far-reaching bank failure, and alarmed for her Pacific Empire; Russia, where the Anglo-French military mission began its staff talks with top-ranking Russian officers; Japan, where trouble was developing in the Cabinet over the question of adherence to the Axis; Great Britain, where, with a truculence that astonished visitors, Britons were parading...
...time, he headed it. At 27 he persuaded Belgian industrialists to accept the paper currency issued in occupied territory. After the War he managed Germany's central monetary office, where his first job was to organize the Amsterdam branch of the famous, 125-year-old Mendelssohn & Co. Bank. The branch grew bigger than the tree. At 30, Fritz Mannheimer set up Mendelssohn & Co., Amsterdam, as an independent bank, made himself its head...
...Fritz Mannheimer was a regular E. Phillips Oppenheim character. Mysterious (few people even knew his name), powerful, grasping, he began to formulate the financial policies of nations and to get fat. At one time he worked simultaneously for the German, Austrian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Yugoslav and Rumanian Central Banks. Twice he turned down the presidency of the German Reichsbank, the second time proposed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht in his place. Schacht got the job. He began to buy antiques-among them the valuable Eucharistic Dove stolen from Salzburg's Cathedral. He was too skeptical to have any truck with Ivar...
...dropping from 264 to 143 Ibs. But Paul Reynaud was grateful, served as best man when, only eight weeks ago, the dying financier surprised everyone by marrying a tall, dark, 21-year-old Brazilian girl named Marie Antoinette Reiss. The marriage was as doomed as Fritz Mannheimer's bank. The groom had a heart attack during the ceremony, was revived with two injections to get through it. Recently he fainted in the French Finance Ministry. Twenty-four hours after his death the bank announced it was suspending payments. Immediately Paul Reynaud announced that the French Government...
...wreckage that demoralized older economists, too tough to be rebuffed by the snubs and cuts of a decaying financial aristocracy, slippery enough to make his way through the crevices that appeared as the social structure cracked under war strain. Adroit to the end, he died before his bank closed its doors...