Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adrian Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., onetime (1914-18) member of the Federal Reserve Board, one of whose current hobbies is Washington's Park & Planning Commission and whose most recent job, given him fortnight ago, is the honorary (payless) chairmanship of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank...
Meanwhile Benito Mussolini wound up an exciting three weeks of clapping all the kingdom's principal banks under control of the Bank of Italy-i. e., "nationalized banking." He decreed that foreign tourists who have been getting about twelve lire for a dollar will hereafter get around 16 lire by buying in their home countries new-style Italian lire travelers' checks...
Prizewinning artist was Noble Foster Hoggson (1888), a dapper, peppery little gentleman of 71, member of the building firm of Hoggson Bros, which has in the past 45 years erected over 2,000 bank buildings throughout the U. S. Newshawks found Artist Hoggson in the club bar, more than willing to talk...
...table loaded with books. A Negro in a grey flannel shirt is pulling a heavy tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale Rider is disappearing into the sunset. Since the whole is painted with the stodgy technique of a bank president's portrait, the effect is as surprising as would be the sight of Herbert Hoover blowing a tenor saxophone...
Money. U. S. Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor was pleased to report to President Roosevelt last week that deposits in national banks were at an all-time high. Presumably Mr. O'Connor did not stress the point that these deposits had been inflated by Government borrowing and spending. Meantime, through the fiscal mysteries of central banking, the Treasury's huge March operations reduced excess bank reserves no less than $620,000,000 in one week. For the past few months the Treasury has been deliberately manipulating its balances to hold down excess reserves, the total last...