Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henri Rochette was sentenced to two years in prison, which he never served, fleeing to Mexico instead. During the War he turned up in the Verdun trenches, fighting under an assumed name. Later he appeared as a character in the Oustric bank failure. Last month French justice, smarting under charges of laxity in the Stavisky affair, hauled him into court, sentenced him again on his ancient swindle charge. In 15 years Henri Rochette has lost most of his spirit; he wanted only to be left alone. He lost his appeal last week. The original sentence of two years in jail...
...Torgsin stores in Soviet Russia, preferred trade is in foreign currency, preferably gold and silver, which Russia badly needs to buy goods abroad. But a foreigner may turn in his money at a Soviet bank or at Torgsin and get paper rubles and a booklet showing how many rubles he has bought. When he pays a Torgsin clerk with rubles he must present the booklet, have his ruble total marked down. Thus a Russian may not buy at a Torgsin store unless a relative abroad has sent him a money order through Torgsin. Nor may a foreigner use rubles bootlegged...
...will continue to collect all the taxes ordinarily earmarked for amortization payments. The decree affects two loans floated by the Manhattan bond house of Speyer, three by the House of Morgan. It has nothing to do with the $80,000,000 public works loan sponsored by Chase National Bank, now in complete default and under investigation to determine Tyrant Machado's right to contract...
...Mayor of Eatonville he led a posse which captured a band of bank robbers. Dr. Bridge lined up the bandits, advised them to find some new line of work. Robbery, he said, was poor business. The American Medical Association, stanch foe of socialized medicine, does not consider contract practice unethical per se. Two years ago its Bureau of Medical Economics reviewed Dr. Bridge's activities in the A. M. A. Journal, admitted that such schemes give some patients better care than they could otherwise get. But, said the Bureau, they also lead to solicitation, underbidding, inferior service. They squeeze...
...Banker Felix Warburg has four sons: Frederick, a Kuhn, Loeb partner; Gerald, the 'cellist; Paul ("Piggy") who is a vice president of Bank of the Manhattan Co.; Edward, the secretary-treasurer of the new School of American Ballet. James Paul Warburg who writes popular songs with his wife, Katherine ("Kay") Swift, is a cousin, son of the late Paul Moritz Warburg. * The endowment was for $5,000 a year. During Depression it shrank...