Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look at that youthful and dreamy-faced Scotsman Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow and Baron Hope, few people would suppose that during the War he commanded a Death-spitting armored car corps, that he is now 47 and a director of the Bank of Scotland or that Whitehall would be saying last week "there goes the next Viceroy of India...
...Rochester, 30 mi. north, without setting foot off its own land. Depression has dealt lightly with Geneseo's 2,260 inhabitants, who work on farms or in the cannery & jam factory, or teach in the State Normal School, and deposit their money in the Wadsworth bank. Thriving seat of Livingston County, the town supports two weekly newspapers, the Livingston Republican and the Livingston County Leader. Last week the Leader made big local news...
Through last week 1,000 men, women &children- nearly half the population of Geneseo-trooped down Main Street past the Normal Grill and Ulmer's drug store to the corner of Bank Street, then up a narrow flight of stairs to Publisher Sanders' tiny office. A Boy Scout was first in line. A 78-year-old town character named Pliny B. Seymour had himself fingerprinted "in case my memory should fail or something." A couple from the cannery brought their four-month-old daughter. The whole Rotary Club, including Representative Wadsworth & Son James Jeremiah ("Jerry") who sits...
...Jones of Cities Service dropped from the skies in a great glistening white monoplane. Governor Futrell of Arkansas and a few ranking members of the State's judiciary were already on hand. From St. Louis went a delegation headed by Tom K. Smith of Boatmen's National Bank who lately resigned as an assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. Higher education was represented by President Bruce Payne of Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. and President Pat Neff of Baylor University, Waco, onetime Governor of Texas. Governor Eugene Black of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, now the President...
...Norwich, England, Harry Stanley Green, bank clerk, transferred $70,000 from the accounts of rich clients to those of poor clients, took no shilling for himself. Confident that he had helped to relieve the Depression, Altruist Green went to jail for a year...