Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birthday 4,000 spectators lined up in ankle-deep slush along the river. Virginia's Governor George Campbell Peery refused to wet his feet, missed the show. Presently Pitcher Johnson wound up, plunked one dollar into the river, placed two more well up on the opposite bank. Official distance: 286 ft. 6 in. Representative Bloom, "too busy" to attend, refused to pay the citizens of Fredericksburg $100,000, pointed out that the legend was impossible anyway since the dollar did not exist in Washington's youth...
...presidency of the $50,000,000 Boston Edison Company, after serving a mixed apprenticeship at Holy Cross and the very Harvard firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden and Perkins. There is another who is a director on the board of Boston's dominant financial organization, the First National Bank. A third, who is also the most enthusiastic of all Harvard's football aficionados is the managing editor of the eminently conservative and old-school Globe. Harmony and serenity on the part of church, state, and public institutions is one of the remarkable and refreshing aspects of the Boston scene...
...arbitrarily slashing the standing interest rate in Massachusetts from 2 1-2 to 1 1-2 percent, the revenue bill would defeat its purpose entirely, as savings banks would soon be put out of business. This additional 1 per cent, moreover, would increase present savings bank payments ten-fold, even though these institutions now pay a higher rate than any other source of state revenue...
...becoming the butt of some of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth's best jokes. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, his eldest son, who repudiates his father's lucrative hyphen, played on Yale's football team in 1915, held a job in Charles G. Dawes's late bank, for a time was a partner in Chicago's Field, Glore & Co., was appointed an executive assistant to George Peek in the early days...
...newsorgans controlled by substantial interests, undertook to slay him with ridicule and such "information" as that last year on Bastille Day he posted stickers in Paris lavatories inviting all Frenchmen of courage to meet him on a designated street corner the following day for the purpose of attacking the Bank of France...