Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jacob Viner, his special assistant, Acting Federal Reserve Board Governor Thomas and the Reserve Board's chief economist, Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser. They were on hand to watch the President receive a distinguished oldtimer. Robert Latham Owen, 78, onetime Indian Agent for the Five Civilized Tribes, founded the First National Bank of Muskogee, Okla. For 18 years (1907-25) he sat in the U. S. Senate where his crowning glory was helping to put through Representative Glass's Federal Reserve Act. Last week Mr. Owen went to the White House to press on the President his pet plan: to restore prosperity...
...Taxes, with a continuation of the present Federal rates on gasoline, bank checks, etc., and new levies, probably on incomes, to yield perhaps half a billion dollars a year, unless the President decides he prefers the inflationary effect of mounting U. S. deficits...
...President says quiet-like, 'Sylvester, I'll investigate and you'll hear from me.' " Sylvester Harris did hear. The Columbus, Miss. Negro who thought he was telephoning President Roosevelt at the White House to save his mortgaged farm got prompt aid from the New Orleans Land Bank (TIME, March 12). Last week Sylvester Harris seized a chance to show his gratitude...
Strong but above all quick was the line he took when the National City Bank branches in Japan were threatened after a rumor that their managers were guilty of "photographic espionage" (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932), and when Japanese hoodlums set out to destroy the Singer Sewing Machine branch office at Yokohama with cordwood clubs (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). In both cases Ambassador Grew was at the Foreign Office almost before its officials knew that trouble had broken. In both cases, by reminding the Japanese with courteous firmness what protection their property in the U. S. has always enjoyed, Ambassador Grew...
Seeking Divorce. Katharine Swift ("Kay") Warburg; from James Paul Warburg, 38, vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co., onetime New Dealer and Undersecretary of the Treasury, monetary adviser to the U. S. delegation to the 1933 London Economic Conference, co-author with his wife of musicomedy lyrics (the first Little Show, Fine and Dandy), son of the late Paul Moritz Warburg; in Reno...