Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honora Munroe Bruere, 20, daughter of Henry Bruere, president of Manhattan's great Bowery Savings Bank, made her debut in Broadway with a short bit in Post Road. Morning before she told newshawks: "I know that it is not myself attracting attention but it's the fact that I am my father's daughter...
...first "holy smuggling" trial fortnight ago was that of Sister Wernera (born Katherine Weidenhöfer) of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Cologne. Years ago the Sisters of Charity borrowed $100,000 from Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis to complete a nursing hospital in Cologne. On the dot the sisters met installments of their debt, until just $25,000 remained owing by 1935. A Dr. Hofius, good Catholic layman, of the Münster Bank in Westphalia, suggested how this last amount might be paid off. By elaborate code (whenever Mercantile-Commerce...
Said George W. Wilson, Executive Committee Chairman of the St. Louis bank: "Isn't it a commentary that Sister Wernera should be penalized for her courage and integrity in trying to meet an obligation of honor, and that others are commended for evading their just debts...
...accept an automobile from his flock, preferring to ride from parish to parish on a sturdy grey horse. Once, said he, his eye for horseflesh caused him to stop to admire a number of mounts tethered in Huntington. One of the horse-owners asked the way to a bank. That man, said Father Quirk, turned out to be Jesse James. He robbed the bank...
...lost part of his fortune in the stockmarket, given another part to his children. Hounded by creditors, he finally turned all his assets and liabilities over to his son. A director of Remington Rand and several other companies, he owned no stock of value, had but one asset, a bank account containing $153.63. By order of the judge, Oldster Rand made over the $153.63 to the County Clerk, took a poor debtor's oath, went home...