Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baba. In Tokyo the new Finance Minister, successor to assassinated Greatest-Japanese-Finance-Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, is that departed statesman's wily stooge, Mr. Eiichi Baba. As governor of the Government-controlled agricultural bankers' bank the Nippon Kwangyo Ginko since 1927, ingratiating Eiichi Baba has made the most of opportunities to become friends with the Radical-Militarists. The Army is almost entirely of peasant stock and absolutely resolved that exploited and oppressed Japanese rustics shall now get their innings. In Tokyo last week it was considered more than likely that wily Stooge Baba had sold the Army some...
...started his fortune by exchanging groceries and farm products for raw Maryland whiskey, selling the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." He increased it by shrewd business ventures and hard-fisted money-lending. Because his only love was a first cousin, he never married. He became president of a bank, a leader in insurance, shipping and warehousing, the largest individual stockholder of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. But to the end of his life he never wore an overcoat, walked whenever he could save money by it, thought long before replacing a threadbare carpet in his home. When he died...
...Capital Co. controlled by Cowdin, his friend & partner, George Newell Armsby, and Broker Lawrence W. Fox Jr. In return, Laemmle gave Standard Capital an option on his stock until Feb. 1. The option was extended six weeks. Last week Standard Capital deposited $1,500,000 in a New York bank. An additional deposit of $4,000,000 will be made within 20 days. After that Universal will be in the hands of its new owners...
...Chicago Negro named Anthony Overton, Victory had an uninspiring record until a few years ago when control moved East to New York City's Harlem. Founder Overton, who made a tidy fortune selling cosmetics, bleaching lotions and hair straighteners to his fellow blackamoors, also ran a bank, Chicago's defunct Douglass National, only national bank ever chartered by Negroes. Then regarded as the No. U.S. Negro financier, Overton sluiced a considerable amount of Victory's funds into stock in his ailing bank. Upshot was that Victory lost its licenses in a number of States, whereupon Overton hastily...
Store Manager Loots Bank to Cover. Shortage...