Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informal talk on the current financial situation will be given in the Adams House Upper Common Room tonight by John R. Williams. Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economic, who serves as Economic adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York He will be the guest of honor at an Adams House dinner before the informal meeting begins...
...Belgrano Jr., 39. of San Francisco. Commander Belgrano is the first Legionary who never got to France with the A. E. F. to reach this topnotch position in the organization. He entered Legion activities when he became a founder of Galileo Post in his hometown. A vice president of Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association, president of Pacific National Fire Insurance Co., Commander Belgrano kept discreet silence when the Bonus ruckus was shrilling about him, pledged a non-political administration...
...captivate the gentlemen of the Right: 1) He denied that he had ever given Upton Sinclair. Mahatma of the West Coast millennium, a promise of any statement in his support (see p. 11). 2) He declared that he was giving no consideration to plans for substituting a central bank for the Federal Reserve System. 3) He went before the American Bankers Association and. after listening to a conciliatory speech by Manhattan Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds (delivered, according to report, by White House request), said some nice things about the profit system (see p. 55) and some day letting the lending...
William Curtise Butler owns a large interest in the First National Bank of Seattle, is president of Everett Trust & Savings Bank and Everett's First National, controls immense timber interests in western Washington. Though his is one of the Northwest's big fortunes, his name appears on no door, window or nameplate, identifies no concern, is not listed in Who's Who or the Everett telephone book. The oldest employe in the First National of Seattle does not know who he is. Yet, through Brother Nicholas, he has selected two of the University of Washington...
...itself as a gauge for the criticism of our mundane institutions has nothing really objectionable, excepting that it is utterly fallacious and thus stupid. That is, you can not criticize, on a basis of Truth, the social legislation of any other of our country and speak in defense of banking as the author, of the letter published under the title "Dissenting Zealots," has attempted. You can not apply this Truth in the criticism of the legislative, political and economic efforts of the present Administration. The reason is obvious: Our very system of government has not a basis on that elusive...