Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrew Jackson and the United States Bank," Professor Mark Emerson...
...Ehlers & Co., Investment Brokers. It was his job, through a miraculous system of checks and drafts, to use funds from the Lincoln treasury to pay for the Lincoln company. But the ring-around-the-rosy scheme went askew in St. Paul, where a bank refused to honor Ehlers' signature. President Lindquist scurried up to St. Paul to see his wife and children, and pick up the unhonored draft. By no means embarrassed, Baiata calmly called on Otto Van Derck for another $25,000 piece of "financing." That was too much for the young bank clerk. Prompted by his 22-year...
...President Arthur E. Braun of Farmers Deposit National Bank, fifth largest bank in Pittsburgh (resources: $88,000,000), was elected a director of young, hustling Allegheny Steel Co., famed makers of stainless, non-corrosive steel alloys...
...Herbert Samuel Holt, Canadian rail-power-banking tycoon, resigned as president of far-flung Royal Bank of Canada, the Dominion's first billion-dollar bank, to become chairman of the board of directors...
...When her safe yielded but a paltry $100,000, relatives immediately began a search of the house. On the top floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with $6,225. Buried under plaster, junk, and old furniture in the cellar they found a score of packets containing uncashed checks and bonds worth $7,417. Finally under...