Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ryan served less than a year of that sentence. Evidence was produced connecting him with another bank robbery; he was transferred to Kingston Penitentiary and given 25 years more. Red Ryan served just one year of that sentence. In 1923 with four companions he broke out of jail and into every Canadian paper. Within 15 days he held up a bank in Toronto, fled...
...year the blazing red thatch of Norman Ryan kept cropping up in a series of holdups and bank robberies throughout Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota. In 1924 he was trapped in the Minneapolis Post Office, extradited to Canada, sentenced to life imprisonment and 30 lashes. The flogging was later canceled...
...Cleveland policeman whom he had long suspected of undue prosperity. The Cuyahoga County prosecutors shortly found that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis J. Cadek, a hardboiled, barrel-bellied police captain who had been 30 years on the Cleveland force. Other property and bank accounts under various names were linked to Captain Cadek, who was soon indicted and brought to trial to explain how he came by a fortune...
...Consolidated Gas of Baltimore general mortgage 4½s of 1954, selling at 123; Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania first & refunding mortgage 5's of 1948 selling at 120. All these issues sold below par at some time during Depression. Atchison general 4's, a savings bank favorite, sold as low as 75. Yet today some of them yield less than 3%, none so much...
...there was less demand from businessmen for money, a normal depression phenomenon. Since the New Deal, however, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board, working in close harmony, have borne down on the money market with every available credit control, chiefly those whose manipulation tends to build up big bank reserves. One purpose of this easy money policy was to make private borrowing cheap, the hoary formula for reviving depressed business. So far U. S. businessmen have done little new borrowing, though they have taken advantage of the cheap money to refund billions of old securities at lower rates...