Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most metropolitan newspapers keep heir private squabbles politely hidden from public gaze, but Washington, D. C. presents two notable exceptions. One is the Washington Post, published by bald, scholarly Eugene Meyer, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank. The other is Hearst's Washington Herald, run by saucy, red-haired Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson...
...four-year record but it just happened that only $5,000,000 was private financing-a United Biscuit issue, notable because it included more than $1,000,000 of new capital. Most of the week's total was accounted for by $162,000,000 of Federal Land Bank refunding, a $24,000,000 California relief loan and a $50,000,000 New York City refunding issue...
Annual meetings, like trout-fly sales, are a highly seasonal phenomenon. Singer Manufacturing Co.'s shareholders do not gather until autumn because it takes nine or ten months to collect its sewing machine figures from all the Earth's corners. Bank of the Manhattan Co. holds its meeting in December before the year is done. But traditional annual meeting season is spring. And last week throughout the land stockholders took full advantage of their yearly opportunity to ask questions, make speeches and exercise their corporate franchise...
...Buchanan, professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, and Mr. Meyers collaborate on "The Administration of Intangibles in View of First National Bank vs. Maine...
...Author, A native of Brooklyn, Robert Whitcomb, 32, comes from "good stock, Yankee Americans" with a dash of Dutch. He has studied forestry, worked in a lumberyard; been a bank-runner, newshawk on a country weekly; hoboed in every State but Idaho. On a hobo trip in 1930 he met "Matt Williams," based his novel on Williams' story. Author Whitcomb has had little to invent: as a hobo and interviewer in agencies for the homeless he has talked to 10,000 unemployed. His literary gods are a queer trinity; Thoreau, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence. At present Author Whitcomb...