Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NEILL Vice President Peoples Bank & Trust Co. North Carrollton, Miss...
...majority. He slid into the executive mansion more than 300,000 votes behind the national ticket, in the wake of the 1934 Roosevelt landslide. His campaign was featured by a prolonged altercation with his Republican opponent as to whether rich Mr. Davey had or had not wrecked a bank in his home town of Kent by approving excessive loans to himself...
What was more, the gloom was worldwide. Heads of the European central banks gathered at a board meeting of the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland, found fundamental conditions growing worse in every important economic area of the earth (see p. 20). After the meeting a New York Times correspondent wrote: "There is no feeling of despair and no fear of an immediate catastrophe anywhere, however. Pessimism comes from the continued lack of any indication of improvement in the basic factors . . . and discouragement from the fact that every one, despite all efforts made, feels he is forever fighting...
...when he married a California girl (Elodie Agnes Hogan; died 1914). Newshawks found Author Belloc tired and old. He grumbled: "I hate my trade. . . . Everybody hates his trade. I'd like to be a banker, without any work to do in the bank." Author Belloc's prolific output includes histories, essays, biographies, critical studies, children's books, travel books, political polemics, satires, sonnets, novels, light verse, defenses of the Catholic faith...
...hero by the modern equivalent of the Greek conception of Fate, the conception of inevitable economic collapse. The play is not divided into acts but shows scenes alternating between a banker's office and a city street. Time is an evening in February 1933, just before the bank moratorium. Doomed hero is one McGafferty, No. 1 Banker of the U. S. While his office ticker stutters its frantic news of crashing banks, riots, panic, and the crowds in the street mutter their comment, McGafferty faces a conference of frightened bankers, tries to bully them into a pool. While their...