Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beginning. In 1908 Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte slapped together a rudimentary Bureau of Investigation by borrowing a heterogeneous collection of sleuths and bank examiners from other departments. Within considerable limitations, the Bureau was charged with the detection and apprehension of violators of Federal statutes. In 1910 these duties were increased by the passage of the Mann Act to break up the interstate traffic in women. Seven years later the War brought the tasks of espionage and counterespionage. In 1919 under the Dyer Act, Department of Justice agents began to chase across State lines automobile thieves (most of whom turned...
...State lines a Federal offense. And at "General" Cummings' request. Congress last year provided the Bureau with automobiles and armaments for the first time. About the same time the Bureau took command of another sector with the passage of an act enabling it to chase, catch and convict national bank robbers. With the passage of these laws the Federal Bureau of Investigation burst upon the national consciousness with the terrifying red glare of a ''Tommy" gun's tracer bullet...
...took to court. (For a local police force 35% is a good average.) It has solved 50 kidnapping cases since 1932. Last year, on an appropriation of $4,680,000 the Bureau returned $38,000,000 in Federal fines and recovered property. And since it entered the national bank robbery field, national bank robberies have declined from 16 per month to four per month...
Without assigning obvious credit to AAA, Federal Land Bank officials in Omaha last week reported farm land prices in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming up as much as 33% from last year. More than 50% of buyers are bona fide settlers. A farm near Omaha lately sold for $155 per acre, a half-section in Sac County, Iowa for $135 per acre. A northern Iowan reported an offer of $110 per acre for land he lately bought...
Meanwhile the guilder had been a target for bear raiders all week, plunged one day fully 1? off parity, as the Bank of The Netherlands raised its discount rate from 3% to 5% to 6%, and grimly paid out 1/9 of its gold reserves to Dutchmen who are perfectly at liberty to hoard. The week closed with the guilder still 84.8% backed by gold...