Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back home in Independence, Alf Landon spent four years in a bank, then plunged into the oil business as an independent producer like his father. In that arduous and risky line-by enterprise, hard work, fair dealing and stiff bargaining-he made a fortune which is now estimated at from $250,000 to $2,000,000, invested chiefly in some 100 Kansas and Oklahoma wells he still owns. He also, in his comings & goings in search of oil, made friends all over Kansas. Shortly after his first wife died in 1918, Alf Landon volunteered for Army Service, was called...
Back at the King David Hotel, a doctor allowed Haile Selassie to have only one visitor, a British bank manager. Together they went over the inventory of the treasure on which the Emperor must live for the rest of his life.What he brought on the Enterprise was estimated at a little over $5,000,000. One important item was already safely in a London vault, the imperial crown of Ethiopia. Solid gold, weighing more than three pounds, studded like a plum cake with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, it was shipped out of Addis Ababa before the fall of the city seemed...
Last week the eyes of the world's money changers were fixed upon the baroque façade of a four-story building in the Rue de la Vrillière in Paris. There behind the portals of the Bank of France was the solid centre of another of those swirling convulsions in French finance which off and on for years have threatened to dislodge the franc from gold. This time it looked as if the perennial prophets of the franc's doom might at last be right. By ship, plane and train gold was pouring...
Paul's Brewer William Hamm, one crime of the three kidnappings. 15 bank robberies and at least three murders of which he is suspected...
...Seeking information on the meeting in 1927 at which the sale was decided upon, Counsel Becker subpoenaed A. T. & T. Directors George F. Baker, chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank; and David Franklin Houston, President of Manhattan's Mutual Life Insurance Co., onetime Secretary of the Treasury under President Wilson. Neither could remember the reasons for the sale. C. A. T. & T. long-distance earnings between 1913 and 1935 were shown to have been $400,000,000, or an annual return of 10.9% on investment despite several voluntary rate cuts. In the same period the associated companies...