Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once an $18-a-week worker in the factory he now owns, President Johnson is conspicuous among tycoons for his liberal and friendly labor policy. Every time a baby leaves one of the three company-owned maternity hospitals, it carries tucked away in its blankets a bank book with a $10 deposit and a pair of baby shoes with the compliments of George F. Johnson. With an enlightened paternalism rare in the early day of Big Business, President Johnson spent millions on his workers' welfare, shared earnings with them, paid their hospital bills, gave them swimming pools, merry...
...Loew, outside the society pages, is a stockbroker with a firm of his own at No. 2 Wall Street. He is supposed to handle the brokerage business of the Baker interests, including First National Bank. Sometimes he is annoyed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange by convivial members who slap his ramrod back, rudely asking why he works...
Divorced. James Paul Warburg, vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co., sometime Brain Truster, lyricist ("Can't We Be Friends?"); by Katharine Swift Warburg, composer for his lyrics; in Reno. Grounds: extreme cruelty, uncontested...
Died. Eugene Robert Black, 61, lately resigned Governor of the Federal Reserve Board; of a heart attack; in Atlanta, Ga. In 1923, after 27 years of law practice, he accepted the presidency of Atlanta Trust Co., later became Governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank. A conservative with a pungent turn of tongue, he predicted the Crash, gained national note in 1930 when he scolded the Investment Bankers Association for refusing to retrench in the face of Depression. In May 1933 President Roosevelt picked him to succeed Eugene Meyer as head of the Federal Reserve. He resigned last August, continued...
...dive brought Builder Northrop the biggest Army aircraft order in years - no attack planes at a cost of $1,896,400. The new Northrops all-metal, low-wing monoplanes have a topspeed of nearly 280 m.p.h., will probably be powered with the new Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp double-bank radial engines. Well pleased at his bargain was Builder Northrop as he handed Pilot Breese $8,000 for his 15 seconds' work...