Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best tradition of the distinguished Coolidges he followed in his father's banking footsteps, became a vice president of Boston's First National Bank. An independent in politics, he qualified for his new job by voting for Roosevelt in 1932. A few weeks ago he was called to Washington to see whether he could fill the bill unofficially as Undersecretary. Last week after a month's trial the President sent his nomination to the Senate...
...judge who sentenced him, he was set free and went home. But prison had not cured him, for now his friends were the hardest of hard criminals. He resumed his career with petty robberies in Indianapolis, got enough cash to buy a fast car and guns, turned to bank robbing for which his contempt for human life fitted him. Within three months after his release from prison three banks alone yielded him over $40,000. With his new wealth and daring he plotted the release of his jailbird cronies whom he supplied with smuggled arms. Four days before their successful...
...could hold and police everywhere were hunting him. In November they caught him coming out of a doctor's office in Chicago but he drove away through a hail of bullets. He began raiding small-town police stations in Indiana for arms and bullet-proof vests while his bank robberies multiplied. Then with his plunder he dropped out of sight until last January when officers arrested him and three of his gang, quietly vacationing in Tucson, Ariz. (TIME, Feb. 5). Chapter No. 2 ended with his return by air to Crown Point, Ind. to face a murder charge...
...takes it upon himself to encourage a romance between a pretty acquaintance of his. Evelyn Venable, and his bashful bank clerk Kent Taylor. He accomplishes his purpose when he discovers the balking horse he has sold Miss Venuable can trot if coaxed by singing. After persuading kent Taylor to bet on the horse, he does his share on the singing end of it. While the plot is weak. Will Rogers makes David Harum an enjoyable evening...
...passed more quietly than usual in Paris. Communists tore up a few paving blocks in the workers' quarter on the left Bank, dug trenches, and built bonfires, but the gendarmerie were equal to the situation, and checked incipient parades. "For the first time in many years on a May Day," reports say, "there were taxicabs in plenty on the streets,"--perhaps a more real menace to the citizenry than parades themselves, if we remember our fiacres. So peaceful was the day that correspondents did not see fit even to mention the state of health of "Smiling Gaston's" Ministry...