Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already the Government has got back from the Chase National Bank with which it was trusteed, the half million dollars which Jackson Barnett gave the Baptist Home missions. It is suing Washington's Riggs National Bank to recover $200,000 trusteed there for Mrs. Barnett out of the "donation" made to her. It is also suing Lawyer McGugin for the sum he received...
What the "boys'' had done was neatly and conveniently marked by a red envelope in the bottom of a filing case. In and out of this envelope during 1929-32, according to Government evidence, had passed some $5,000,000 which the bank's officers had used to peg the price of Harriman National's stock...
...courtroom perked up last week when Constance Talmadge and Peggy Hopkins Joyce took the stand as Government witnesses. They were among the 14 depositors from whom the bank had allegedly appropriated money. Constance Talmadge Netcher, now the wife of a Chicago department store owner, arrived in black & white, her face deeply tanned, her mouth crimson with lipstick. It took her seven minutes to declare that she had authorized no borrowings for the purchase of bank stock, had known nothing about the transactions until a Government agent called upon her. The judge smiled indulgently, the jury gossiped in whispers...
...canny trading among the hotheads of a real-estate boom. When a lynching scare (in outline the Scottsboro case) threatens to undermine the town's prosperity, the Colonel risks his popularity to preserve law & order. When the boom collapses anyway and there is a run on the bank, the Colonel quickly becomes the most hated man in town. But nothing really hits him hard until his daughter turns out to be a different species of flower from the one the Colonel always considered synonymous with Southern womanhood. That breaks up his world. When a bomb brings down his unfinished...
...guileless. His own cryptic opinions are buried deep in the characters of his people. Only occasionally does he let his irony be seen: a cynical businessman defines the decision of a jury as "just an idle opinion expressed by twelve negligible onlookers"; when a bankrupt unsuccessfully pleads that the bank should not strip him to the buff, "the Colonel was amazed that anyone should compare the most conventional of American businesses with a gambling house...