Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prestige and profits. Within 24 hours Mr. Farley made his second choice and Walter Joseph Cummings was put in charge of the party's money bags. Mr. Cummings headed Deposit Insurance Corp. until January when the R. F. C. foisted him on Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank as its chairman. Said Mr. Farley: "I feel that the party is very fortunate in securing for committee treasurer a man of such outstanding prominence and ability. . . ." Republicans were also prompt to congratulate the Democratic Party, pointing out that as head of a big bank, whose largest stockholder...
Your issue of March 12, p. 11, col. 3, re Sylvester Harris, the Mississippi gentleman of color and his success in negotiating a Federal Land Bank loan as the result of a personal 'phone call to the White House: Do you suppose the same system would work if applicants for Home Owners' Loan Corp. assistance were to invest the necessary amount of toll charge to the same end? Or does it only work in Mississippi? Or with the Land Bank exclusively? Or only with colored people...
...business could get RFC funds "for the purpose of furnishing working capital, reducing and refinancing existing indebtedness or making plant improvements or replacements." Such loans would be limited to companies employing ten or more men. The RFC is already the biggest public bank in the land; if the Jones subsection is enacted, the RFC may well become the only bank in the land...
...Boston, with a view to recommending criminological and penological reform. The Medical School has just announced a discovery concerning the nature of filterable viruses, responsible for many contagious diseases. Harvard has contributed its share of "brain-trusters," with Professor James B. Williams a special adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with Dr. John B. Crane a special investigator for the Airmail committees of Congress, and with Dr. Edward Chamberlin assisting the Railroad Coordinator. Lecturers have discussed the New Deal in its economic, legal, and political aspects, and have often deviated from their regular schedule to discuss events...
Tuesday's session unearthed numerous accounts of official pilfering of inmates' bank accounts and insurance policies, activities thoroughly familiar to John Curry's boys, but which are doubly criminal when practiced on helpless invalids. The bombshell burst in Wednesday's meeting when various attendants related to the Committee a series of incidents in the happy round of their daily chores. One inmate was forced to remain in a chair for three days with a set of broken ribs before she was treated. Another woman was struck down by an attendant and is now in Bellevue Hospital. A woman...