Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago where he sang with Samuel Insull's Civic Opera Company for five seasons. As his operatic fame increased, Robert Ringling began to show an interest in his family's affairs. Before the Chicago Civic Opera ceased to operate, he became president of the Ringling Trust & Savings Bank at Sarasota, Fla., where the Ringling circuses have their winter quarters. Recently that bank liquidated, paying off all depositors in full. Last week Robert Ringling decided to give up his operatic career. The announcement was by Samuel W. Gumpertz, Ringling general manager, in Sarasota, as the Ringling Circus prepared...
Engaged. Charles Francis Adams Jr., 23, son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy, descendant of John and John Quincy Adams, second & sixth U. S. Presidents; and Margaret Stockton, 19, daughter of Philip Stockton, president of Boston's First National Bank. ¶ To Abbe Georges Lemaitre, professor at the University of Louvain. now lecturing at Catholic University in Washington, D. C., author of the ''expanding universe" theory which views the present universe as shrapnel of one atom exploded some five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance...
Grass was literally growing in Wall Street when Bank of New York & Trust Co. was founded in 1784. The little city of 23.000 souls which sprawled across the lower tip of Manhattan Island was just beginning to recover from the scourge of British occupation. One-eighth of the town was a blasted waste of charred ruins. Orchards and fences had all been burned for fuel. Cows browsed in the weedy thoroughfares. Wharves were decaying. The city treasury was empty...
Packet, one of the town's four newspapers, carried this announcement : "It appearing to be the disposition of the gentlemen of this city to establish a bank on liberal principles, the stock to consist of specie only, they are therefore invited to meet tomorrow evening, at six o'clock, at the Merchants' Coffee-House, where a plan will be submitted for their consideration." Up to that time there had been no bank in New York. Until three years before when Bank of North America (now part of The Pennsylvania Co. for Insurance of Lives & Granting Annuities...
...Bank of New York had a monopoly on Manhattan banking until the branch of the Bank of the United States was established in 1791. Its first private competitor originated with a bright young man who had just begun to realize the possibilities of a new organization known as Tammany Society. With a fine show of public spirit, Aaron Burr promoted a water system for the city. In the charter for his Manhattan Co. he inserted a clause permitting it to engage in "moneyed transactions." A few of the people's representatives suspected a ruse but Burr talked vaguely...