Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bank of France has continued to supply anyone who brought in 169,635 paper francs ($11,196) with a gold bar of like value. Bank of France gold reserves were at an all-time record high last week...
Some years ago in Rome. King Gustaf V of Sweden and his Queen Victoria paid a visit to an ancient house on the Campo di Fiori near the bank of the Tiber. Good Lutherans as they must be by law, the monarchs of Sweden were interested in the house because there, in 1373, died a great and pious Swedish woman, St. Bridget. In the chapel they viewed relics of the founder of the Brigittine Order. Then Queen Victoria spied a nun in a habit different from those of the barefoot Carmelites who occupied the house. She spoke...
Oxford got the better start. At Craven's Steps, Cambridge, pulling with an easier stroke, was three quarters of a length in front. The Cambridge coxswain, Duckworth, hugged the Surrey bank for smoother water. Close to shore, his shell got better run, led by three lengths at Hammersmith Bridge, half way on the 4¼-mile course. The Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths...
...years the adviser in private financial matters of King George's aunt, the late beauteous Empress of All the Russias Marie Feodorovna. sister of Britain's Queen Alexandra. Escaping to England after the Revolution, the Tsarist banker has prospered, today is Managing Director of the Anglo-International Bank. Said freshly-knighted Sir Peter Bark significantly: "My knighthood was conferred as a personal order from the King...
Privately Catholics discussed with their priests the latest move of wavy-haired young King Leopold III in calling to the Premiership an economist untried in statecraft, Professor Paul van Zeeland, Vice Governor of the National Bank of Belgium. In her wisdom Mother Church could offer no fiscal consolation. Her attitude, cautiously reflected by the Catholic Press of Belgium, was that no good could be expected of van Zeeland, "an admirer of Roosevelt...