Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 3, there appeared an article under the heading of "Bank Night" in which the game of "Screeno" was listed as an "imitation...
...theory of Harvard College is to give a broad cultural education, it seems to me that a course in Fine Arts should be available. Ideally, its object would be to interest the student who is going to be a bank president in art, and enable him to make intelligent comments when visiting foreign art galleries on his honeymoon...
Students examining the course book find Fine Arts 1d, which is a half-year course covering the art of western Europe from Early Christian to modern. Also, there is Fine Arts 1c, which is a similar history of ancient art; and Fine Arts 1a, which cuts out our future bank president because it requires an ability to draw. To the student who wants a survey of European art, there is no selection...
More serious was the effect on International's financial position. At the end of 1931, bank loans amounted to $36,000,000 and Chase National Bank began to have a louder voice in the management. But the conspicuous fact about International is that it did not go into receivership or a 77-6 reorganization during a period when nearly every other big newsprint company in North America did. By the end of 1934, President Graustein had cut bank loans to $15,000,000, though utility profits continued to drop and newsprint was, and still is, selling near its Depression...
However, Mr. Graustein had his own idea about this arrangement. He interpreted the board action as a vote of no confidence, sat down forthwith and wrote a three-page resignation. Having by repute no love at all for Chase National Bank, Mr. Graustein is supposed to have spied that institution's long hand behind the directors' attitude. Elected to succeed him was Kraftman Cullen. Even Mr. Graustein does not know where Mr. Cullen was born...