Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monday morning, the New York Times carried a story about Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Toole, parents of four young children, who were sentenced to three years in jail for taking relief when they had $11,000 in the bank. The judge declared they had done "a nasty, grasping, thieving, low trick...
...opening chapters give a complete and detailed study of the technique of handling Treasury funds, with special emphasis on the significance to the banks of alternative methods, and on the influence of government activities upon bank reserves and lending capacity. A survey of war finance follows, and this chapter lays the groundwork for the consideration of depression finance which occupies the last four chapters of the book...
This latter study presents an analysis of the possible effects of unbalanced budgets during a depression; an examination of both the theoretical and popular arguments for and against government emergency expenditures; the effect of government spending on private industrial spending; the relation of such expenditures to bank loans, and finally the probable position of the banking system, with its large holdings of Treasury obligations, under conditions of recovery. The author feels that the process of funding and paying off the debt will raise some entirely new banking problems, which are here presented for the first time...
First National's largest stockholder is Chairman George Fisher Baker, son and namesake of the bank's longtime head. The Baker holdings are around 25,000 shares, one-fourth of the stock outstanding. According to the late George Fisher Baker, a prime factor in success is SILENCE. Reared in this tradition, the present Mr. Baker is no public figure, makes news more frequently as yachtsman than banker. Now 57, he went to Harvard (Class of 1899), worked in J. P. Morgan & Co. for a year, has been in the family bank ever since. Few years ago he built...
...railroad did not at once kill the old stage express. For 20 years more it did duty on minor routes, fighting highwaymen to the very end. Nor did the name Wells Fargo vanish with the last Concord. Today San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co. is third largest in that city...