Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spectators at Manhattan's annual Westminster Dog Show have agreed of late years that the big white & golden sable collie, Champion Lucason of Ashstead o'Bellhaven, is a magnificent sight. Imported from England and reared at the famed Bellhaven Kennels in Red Bank. N. J. by energetic Mrs. Florence B. Ilch, No. 1 U. S. collie breeder, he was judged best of breed at Westminster from 1930 to 1934. But many a layman, remembering the smart, friendly Scotch collies of his youth, has deplored the breeding trend which gave Lucason his looks. Aiming at a long, narrow, chiseled...
...Tuxedo Park. When the late Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard set up a shooting box on the site in 1887, Patterson and his father became his friends, grew intimate also with Parrimans, Tilfords, Rogerses, Wagstaffs, Bakers. The Tuxedo colony grew up under Patterson supervision. Charles Patterson was head of the bank, the fire department, the park association helped run the hospital, horse show, kennel club...
Canon law of the Roman Catholic Church forbids a priest to engage in business. But last week Bishop Joseph H. Conroy of Ogdensburg, N. Y. felt justified in stretching the letter of the law to permit one of his priests to become a bank president. Belgian-born, Rev. Cyril Stevens, 65, has for 21 years been pastor of small Ticonderoga's only Catholic church, St. Mary's. When Ticonderoga's National Bank looked shaky during the Bank Holiday of 1933, Father Stevens it was-his church being a stockholder and large depositor-who singlehanded saved the bank...
...been shipped or is awaiting shipment to the U. S. Most of it was disgorged by hoarders, frightened by the European war buzz. Since all gold landed in the U. S. must be sold to the Treasury, timorous capitalists apparently preferred Roosevelt paper dollars in a U. S. bank to hard bullion in a European vault...
...short of one-half the world's supply. From the recondite records of the Federal Reserve System it was evident that little if any of the timid capital was seeking real investment. The funds were merely adding to the money glut by increasing excess member bank reserves, already amounting to $2,800,000,000. If bankers could find borrowers, those reserves would permit an expansion of credit to ten times $2,800,000,000 and create a boom that would dwarf the 1920's. Such a runaway boom is what most people mean when they talk about Inflation...