Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour week, 3). collective bargaining between employers and trade unions, 4) vacations with pay, 5) co-operatives to handle French peasants' wheat and fix its price, 6) forced retirement at an earlier age of France's whiskered, fusty reactionary bureaucrats and 7) partial nationalization of the Bank of France, founded by the great Napoleon...
...Chamber's most important act, the new Bank of France set-up was its sharpest stab of lèse majeste against the entrenched French ruling class. Abolished henceforth are the Regents elected by the 200 biggest stockholders representing the so-called "200 Families." Instead, various branches of the Government appoint 16 Regents, the savings banks another, the Bank's employes "secretly elect" still another and two Regents are chosen by all the Bank's 40,000 stockholders, each having one vote, regardless of his holdings...
Whereas the 200 members of the Families' assembly used to vote in clannish secrecy, it seemed probable last week that a great number of ihe 40,000 newly eligible stockholders would accept their invitations to next month's assembly to ballot in the Bank's most publicized Assembly. All the great rooms in the Bank of France could not hold them and Bank officials last week seriously considered hiring an open-air stadium for the Bank meeting. Last week the Bank announced that stockholders must give three weeks' notice of their intention to vote, must vote...
...brother workers" in Spain, then voted part of their monthly wages for a Spanish Government defense fund. At week's end it was announced that 12,000,000 roubles ($2,400,000; had been collected from this and other Bolshevik mass meetings, transferred through the Soviet State bank to the Spanish Government...
...from Philadelphia's rich Coxe family, now have a fulltime retreat master, Rev. Dr. James W. Gibbons, who conducts 45 sessions a year. President of the League is John J. Sullivan, austere heir to a traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework of organizing the gatherings is divided up among retreat captains, chairman of whom is wiry...