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Word: bankes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pricked up interest as oldster David Lloyd George announced that he means to stump the entire British Isles with an avowedly Rooseveltian campaign for a British New Deal based on nationalization of the Bank of England, economic planning and high-pressure spending on public works. Cried he: "I think President Roosevelt has given the world a very wise lead. The American New Deal has shown how essential it is to reconstruct completely to defeat depression in every phase of economic life." Ridiculing His Majesty's Government's intention to spend 2,000,000 pounds rehabilitating certain depressed areas (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...across a wooden bridge over a canal that intersects the fairway just before the green. Amid a loud splitting of timber the bridge broke. With squeaks, yells, grunts, moans, Dutra and 20 members of the gallery were thrown into the water. Dutra clambered out, helped the others up the bank, lay down to rest for a moment, made a birdie 4 on the last hole, won first prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducking | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...once polished up the handles on Henry Ford's private car. In the five master bedrooms as the train was speeding through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank in the U. S. Another was the bank's president, Henry Donald Campbell. A third was the bank's brilliant economist, Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. And a fourth was handsome young Nelson Rockefeller, who had nothing to do with the bank except that his father John Davison Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chase on Wheels | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

Chase National Bank was paying $75 per day for the private car, plus railroad fares for 15 persons, in order that its top executives might make a month-long swing around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chase on Wheels | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...Paul local newspapers were asked to play down the Chase junket but they insisted on playing up President Campbell, their home-town-boy-who-made-good. One of "Don" Campbell's first jobs had been a clerkship in the State Capitol. Said the president of the Chase National Bank: "And, gentlemen, you should have seen my office, much finer than my office in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chase on Wheels | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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