Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another is Percy H. Johnson, governor of the Bankers Club and chairman of the board of the Chemical Bank and Trust Company. He is director of the Electric Auto-Lite of Toledo, also a paid advisor of the Soviet Auto Trust...
...might add that President Heber J. Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon Church) is also president of this bank and is a good golf player as well. WALTER L. ROCHE...
...were among the big stockholders in James & Shakespeare, Ltd., the fallen pepper king's trading company, two names known to all England: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, tall, suave, icy board chairman of huge British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.; and Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, bald, brainy head of Midland Bank, world's largest, and onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...rights to a valuable Eagle oil field, has been suing Eagle with great success in the Mexican courts. Appealing last month to the Supreme Court, Eagle was obliged to put up a bond of approximately $10,000,000, winner take all. Eagle chose London's Midland Bank as a safe place for this huge stake, the largest cash bond in Mexican history. Last week the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that it must be deposited in a Mexican bank. To add to Eagle's woes, the Mexican Government abruptly issued a sweeping decree that all concessions of State lands...
...Adopted at 18 months by a wealthy couple who educated him as a lawyer, Leon Fraser had never worked in a bank that received or paid out cash when, in 1933, he was elected president of Bank for international Settlements. But his lack of experience was no handicap. B. I. S. handles almost no cash, keeps in its vault as a solemn joke nothing but a 25? California gold piece and a counterfeit Spanish sovereign. Banker Fraser was an expert in international finance, had helped organize B. I. S., built up its profitable business in League of Nations loans...