Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recruiting for the territorials (Britain's National Guard) is even more serious. Short on troops to be sent to India and Egypt, the General Staff has decreed that practically all territorial regiments be immediately converted into antiaircraft battalions, thus liberating regular army detachments for service abroad. Bank clerks and stockjobbers, drilling once a week, are expected to master the complexities of high-angle range tables, multiple machine guns, acoustic range finders...
Married. Richard King Mellon, 36, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, nephew of Andrew William Mellon; and Mrs. Constance Prosser McCaulley, daughter of Manhattan Banker Seward Prosser; in Englewood...
...Lewisburg, Pa. after seven months of seclusion there, returned quietly to Manhattan. Remaining in seclusion unrelieved was her 69-year-old husband, Joseph Wright Harriman. onetime socialite banker, whose exploits in dementia during his criminal trial three years ago scarcely equaled those by which he put his Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. into the red and finally into receivership in 1933. As prison librarian at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Convict Harriman had ample opportunity last week to read in the Press of the embarrassments his bank caused in Wall Street before its collapse. He had, he discovered, caused a legal battle...
Against nine banks, all members of the New York Clearing House Association, the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency had brought suit to compel them to pay about $2,700,000 to depositors of the closed Harriman bank. Eleven members of the Clearing House had already settled out of court for $3,600,000. The nine defendants resisted payment on the ground that they had not, as the Government contended, guaranteed the assets of their ailing fellow members in 1932 only to back out later. Apparently the main actor and most eligible goat in the controversy was smart, clean...
...Metropolitan Police have trimmed all the shrubbery on the left bank of the Charles down to a level of three inches wherever possible and have thinned out the copses...