Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth time in five years robbers plundered First State Bank of Willis, Tex. They took $300 from the till, $50 from a Negro customer...
...unsuccessful attempt to hold up Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna, Ohio, a lone robber mortally shot President Henry Marlin Saylor...
...Burglars cut the vault doors of Bank of Dudley, Ga., hauled...
...dead of night two robbers broke into Edwardsville State Bank in Wyandotte County, Kans., fell upon the vice president as he entered in the morning, made off with $1,400. While waiting for the time lock to release the vault door, one of the robbers observed: "You know, it's a wonder that Dillinger hasn't visited this joint...
While these crimes were taking place throughout the land last week, the executive council of the American Bankers Association in Hot Springs, Ark. was pondering a report on the subject of bank robberies. Bank clearings in the 21 leading U.S. cities last week were up 82% from last year to the highest level since January 1932, but the week's crop of robberies was nearly normal. An ABA committee reported that in the six months ending Feb. 28 there had been 188 bank hold-ups by daylight, 29 night burglaries-an average of nearly nine per week...