Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Memorial Day Exercises were taking place along the river-bank yesterday, a Harvard Junior was severely injured in a fracas with fifteen local rowdies who were stoning sun-bathers on the roof of Winthrop House...
...also could be "spent" at any grocery, but only for farm produce officially listed as surplus: butter, eggs, flour, cornmeal, prunes, dried beans, citrus fruits. Grocers who took Miss McFiggins' stamps, or wholesalers who accepted them as payment from retailers, can cash them for ordinary money at any bank, for they are drafts on the U. S. Treasury...
...long after the war began the Japanese showed signs of coveting the accumulated riches of the concessions. In North China the Japanese demanded that the foreign concession at Tientsin, and the Legation Quarter at Peking, turn over to their puppet Government for a new Federal Reserve Bank some $9,000.000 in silver belonging to the Chinese Government-controlled banks. When foreign authorities (backed by the French and British Governments) refused, the Japanese took the extraordinary procedure of issuing paper money "against" this silver...
...John Simon, is cold and devious, a lawyer whose poker face and ambiguous, clausy rhetoric are well adapted to muddling through. Devious and poker-faced as ever last week, Sir John took steps definite enough to jolt the bowler-hatted businessmen of London's "City." He mobilized the Bank of England and the London Stock Exchange to impose "Simon's unofficial ban" on British buying of U. S. securities...
Beard's great-grandfather was a Federalist, his grandfather a Whig and rebel Quaker who ran "a one-man church" and speculated in Western lands; his father was a "copper-riveted, rock-ribbed, Mark Hanna, true-blue" Republican who prospered as building contractor, ran a bank, read the classics, raised his family on a farm to develop their backbone. At 18 Charles Beard owned a country weekly, the graduation gift of his father, ran it at a profit for four years. At Methodist DePauw College his extracurricular activities included reporting for a Republican newspaper, electioneering for a Republican Senator...