Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while he was pyramiding his $400,000,000 holding company. In the field of financial pyramiding Promoter Clarke was an architect with considerable imagination. He it was who piled his General Theatres Equipment, Inc. on top of Fox Film early in Depression, a heroic achievement which cost Chase National Bank many a million, sent two members of the New York Stock Exchange to the wall, led to the complete collapse of the original theatre equipment company...
...years ago Promoter Clarke pledged his precious Pusco shares for a measly $2,000,000 loan from the old Dawes bank in Chicago. He never saw them again. In the process of liquidating the notorious $90,000,000 Dawes loan, they ended up in Jesse Jones...
First three in total financing were the three houses which drew a large part of their present strength from the three leading bank securities affiliates of pre-Depression days: First Boston Corp. ($389,000,000), which absorbed the old Chase Harris Forbes organization; Brown Harriman & Co. Inc. ($389,000,000), which includes many an official of old National City Co. as well as onetime Brown Brothers. Harriman & Co. partners; and Edward B. Smith & Co. ($369,000,000), which took in most of the staff of old Guaranty...
...Other ranking houses: Lazard Frères ($168,000,000); Bancamerica-Blair ($156,000,000); Halsey, Stuart ($143,000,000); Lehman Bros. ($137,000,000); A. C. Allyn ($128,000,000); Mellon Securities ($113,000,000); Field Glore & Co. ($113,000,000). Chase National Bank was well up in the list ($136,000,000) with its municipal bond underwriting, which is still permissible for commercial banks...
...Denton, Tex. that held up four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock. In his lawless career, the only man for whose death he was responsible was a deputy who fell in the general mêlée when Bass received his mortal wound...