Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 3), Day by day grew the list of crimes of which the gang was suspected: a mail truck robbery of $100,000 in Warren, Ohio; another of $51,000 in Butler, Pa.; an American Railway Express truck robbery of $10,000 in Perth Amboy, N. J.; three Massachusetts bank robberies totaling $51,500; a $200,000 jewel robbery in Magnolia. Mass, last summer; the O'Connell kidnapping in Albany in 1933; the disappearance of New York's Judge Crater five years...
...greatest horse I ever rode." Said Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon. presenting the gold cup which, in addition to a horseshoe of roses and $39,525. was first prize: "The best horse won.'' Omaha's owner is William Woodward, honorary board chairman of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., chairman of The Jockey Club and probably the most influential owner currently active on the U. S. turf. His Gallant Fox won the Kentucky Derby in 1930. went on to become for a time the greatest U. S. money horse ($328,165) and, by siring Omaha, the third...
...Business Advisory & Planning Council, which has lately emerged as one of the most potent business lobbies in Washington. Composed of much bigger business wigs than the rank & file of Chambermen-men like U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, American Telephone & Telegraph's Walter Gifford, Chase National Bank's Winthrop Aldrich, General Electric's Gerard Swope-the so-called Roper Council drops into the White House for frequent Sunday evening chats. Radicals regard it suspiciously as a hotbed of Fascism...
...week National Distillers announced its latest bid for fresh capital by filing registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission for a $15,000,000 42% debenture issue-biggest single piece of new financing since the Securities & Exchange Act was passed. One-third of the proceeds will go to pay off bank loans. The other $10,000,000 will be spent to increase National Distillers' whiskey production and storage...
...cannot be doubted," he said, "that we have reached the point at which deficits are financed by flat credit, and that at some time, just as in all previous experiences, we may reach the point where government deficits will be met by the direct or indirect governmental or central bank printing of flat money. But even if we do not, the time eventually will arrive when fear of bank deposits will induce an inflation just as in all previous experiences with fear of money, it has arisen...