Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traces its descent back almost 100 years to William ("Parson") Brown-low's famed Tennessee Whig, the Knoxville Journal has had a stormy career. A Republican sheet in Republican East Tennessee, the Journal had its politics spectacularly reversed overnight when swashbuckling Democratic Promoters Luke Lea & Rogers Clark ("Bank on the South") Caldwell bought the paper in 1928. With the collapse of Caldwell's Southern banking and publishing empire (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930), the Journal regained its Republican editorial policy, limped along under the jury-rig of a receivership, with able General Manager Robert H. Clagett keeping a tight...
Markets temporarily exempt from registration include ones like the Wheeling, W. Va., the Louisville, Ky. and the Reno, Nev. exchanges. On the Richmond Stock Exchange Virginians dabble in tobaccos, local utilities, Southern bank and insurance shares. The Seattle Stock Exchange is divided between mining issues and Pacific Coast industries like Jantzen Knitting (bathing suits), Carnation Co. (milk) and Alaska Pacific Salmon...
...shake-up which occurred in C. W. Young & Co., nearly a year ago. His backer-directors felt, among other things, that the firm was growing too big to be a one-man show. From Wall Street they summoned two new vice presidents, Robert W. Sinsabaugh, a onetime Central Hanover Bank & Trust official, and E. Thurston Clarke, head of the investment department of J. P. Morgan & Co. These two men were brought in to relieve Mr. Young of some of his responsibilities. When Mr. Young finally moved out, Mr. Clarke was popped into the firm's presidency...
...automobile crash in 1928. For his burial, the elder Harriman bought a plot of 2,531 sq. ft. in a cemetery at Locust Valley, N. Y. for $8,246. Five years later, escaping from a Manhattan sanatorium where he was held pending trial for the Harriman National Bank failure, Joseph W. Harriman spent a night and a day at his son's grave, later tried weakly to kill himself when discovered at a nearby inn (TIME...
...creditors of Joseph W. Harriman, who is now in a Federal penitentiary for misapplication of his bank's funds, William R. Willcox, trustee in bankruptcy for the personal Harriman properties, last week asked a court's permission to disinter the body of Alan Harriman, auction off the cemetery plot. Permission was refused...