Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away from Washington that night, thanks to the Senate. In that august chamber bitter legislative rivalries at the last minute thwarted the Administration's best plans for a quick adjournment. Ohio's Bulkley started the tangle with a measure for minor amendments to the Banking Act-1933. Washington's Dill and Michigan's Couzens leaped in with a measure to apply collective bargaining to the railroads and their workers. Louisiana's Long stood on the sidelines waiting for a chance to rush in with a bill for farm mortgage moratoriums. Next day was Sunday, with...
Stanton Whitney, Jr. 34, of Red Bank, N. J., has been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Studentship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. The studentship, established by the Associated Harvard Clubs, gives a year of study at Cam- bridge, The scholar lives in the room which John Harvard is supposed to have occupied. Whitney prepared at Groton, He has been on the University Football Team, and the University Wresting Team; has been captain of the University Rugby Team, holder of a John Harvard Scholarship, vice-president of his Junior Class and a member of the Permanent Class Committee. His field...
...when he invited the Press to last week's "house-warming" in his new private office, no less than 150 newsmen went to see and marvel. Twice as large as an ordinary living room, it was a study in green and brown. One whole wall was a bank of French windows facing on a sunny balcony. At opposite ends rose huge black marble fireplaces. Before one of them sat Mr. Farley, in a green leather armchair, at a walnut desk with a green glass top. He rose, blushing with pride, and declared: "We're certainly grateful...
...Morgan & Co. will not be commercial bankers in any ordinary sense. Their clients will be, as they always have been, an imposing roster of big corpora tions, big businessmen, foreign govern ments. Without the securities business the Morgan bank will be not unlike Manhattan's First National, which is currently much perturbed by the old but false re port that it scorns accounts of less than $100,000. In size it will rank among the first ten in New York. Its 1932 balance sheet, as dug out by the Senate Commit tee, revealed deposits of $340,000.000, as sets...
...private bankers the change this week will cause hardly a ripple in day-to-day routine. But to securities affiliates of big banks and their officers and employes, the law meant rough readjustments. Chase Corp., City Co. and Guaranty Co. will be liquidated, their personnel cast adrift. Chase lately arranged to transfer what little remains of its securities organization to First of Boston Corp., divorced affiliate of Boston's First National Bank. Many of the old executives who went to Chase with its purchase of Harris, Forbes in 1930 have already departed to form their own firm. Dissolution...