Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Hyde Park the Californian went to Manhattan, met Postmaster General Farley who said "Call me Jim," went on to Washington, saw Relief Administrator Hopkins, Secretaries Morgenthau and Ickes, Chairman Jesse Jones of RFC, Chairman John H. Fahey of the Home Loan Bank Board, Governor William Irving Myers of the Farm Credit Administration. Still enthusiastic, Mr. Sinclair declared: "I won't quote anybody as approving my campaign but I will say that . . . not one official expressed the opinion that my plan [End Poverty In California] was not practical. ... I am going back to assure the people of California that...
...second time President Roosevelt gave a job to one of Herbert Hoover's aides. Riding to the Capitol for the inauguration on March 4, 1933, President Hoover asked his successor to find a job for White House Secretary Walter Newton. President Roosevelt named Newton to the Home Loan Bank Board for one year (TIME, June 19, 1933). Last week President Roosevelt named George Akerson, President Hoover's first secretary, to a $6,000 job as a member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals...
Leon Fraser, president of the World Bank for International Settlements, foresaw an early return to the gold standard. . . . William Gibbs McAdoo had always found Upton Sinclair "a fine fellow and one of genuine sincerity . . . but I don't want to commit myself." . . . Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, boomed and hawed amiably, sang a snatch of Gilbert & Sullivan. . . . Frank Arthur Vanderlip tossed pearls that he might have sold to the Saturday Evening Post: "My deductions from talk with Minister of Economics Schacht is that things in Germany will be worse before they get better. Their need of cotton is acute. Their...
...unwritten law of succession in the American Bankers Association is that at each annual election the second vice president shall accede to the first vice presidency and the first vice president shall accede to the presidency. U. S. Banking thus picks its official spokesman two years in advance. Many things have happened in the last two years?particularly to Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of New Orleans' Hibernia National Bank, who was elected second vice president of the ABA in the dark autumn...
...meantime great changes take place at the ford. Two Christian missions, two hospitals, a bank, a hotel, a market square are established. Many blacks are attracted by Baptist Minister Jones's sensational revivals. More turn to the Catholic mission where Father Domenique cultivates his gentle philosophy and his rose garden. Sister Marte, annoyed with Sister Therese, runs away, makes good her escape by sending dour old Ferryman Lardi, asleep on his raft, to death in the rapids below, then takes refuge with the Joneses until Sister Mary Josephine fetches her back. Old Googli, the cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from...