Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend's head. "World by Tail" From Old Age Revolving Pensions, Dr. Townsend testified, he had received salary and expenses totaling $16,557. His dividends from the National Townsend Weekly amounted to some $38,500. Of this total he said he had only about $500 in the bank. Although Dr. Townsend last March publicly assigned 90% of the National Townsend Weekly's profits to OARP "as long as there is need for it," he still owns a 50% interest in it. The Weekly, said he last week, is "worth $1,000,000." The committee's young Counsel...
...political motives. He brought before the Judiciary subcommittee the story of Pat Harrison's financial misfortunes in Gulf Coast real estate, charging that Judge Holmes had ratified the receiver's agreements by which some of Pat Harrison's debts to the defunct First National Bank of Gulfport had been reduced. The Judge admitted that he had done so as a routine function, pointed out that the compromises had been first approved by the Comptroller of the Currency. Insolvent Senator. Pat Harrison bravely faced the Senate committee, thumped his fist on the table and, looking Senator Bilbo...
...Manhattan's National City Bank cut the interest rate on small personal loans from 6% to 4%. "The increase in volume has tended to decrease the cost of handling an individual transaction," explained Chairman James Handasyd Perkins. National City's reduction was the first significant move toward bringing the benefits of prevailing low interest rates to little borrowers...
...Independence: they expected the Cape Colony to rise and hoped for help from Europe. The first months of the war were encouraging, but then the weight of numbers began to tell. Just before the British took Pretoria, the Transvaal capital. State Attorney Smut? robbed a bank of its Government funds, sent them off to safety. That nestegg of a half-million pounds kept the Boers going two years more, against England's outlay...
...period when favorable financial statements, increasing carloadings, bloated surplus bank reserves and low money rates point to rising prices on the stock market, brokers, politicians and business men face one vital issue. Can the federal government stop a runaway bull market? Optimists point hopefully at the recent regulations on short sales, the flexible margin requirements, and wide discretionary authority vested in the SEC and the Federal Reserve Board. But as Mr. LeFevre points out in the current Saturday Evening Post, all of these panaceas may prove futile unless the unscientific income tax imposed on capital gains is repealed...