Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Against silver in bank reserves...
...March 1 Allan Hoover, younger son of the 31st President of the U. S. was to leave the lands department of the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, go to farming on 500 acres he and friends had bought near Bakersfield...
...compared to France's Schneider-Creusot most other armament makers are small fry. Through his company, M. Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider controls hundreds of armament firms, mines, smelters and foundries. As a bank director he finances armament loans. As the President of Union Europeenne Industriale et Financiere he has his finger in 230 armament and allied enterprises outside France. Chief of these is Czechoslovakia's Skoda. In this firm French, German, Czech and Polish directors come together in the friendliest spirit to discuss the problems of increasing European consumption of armaments...
Above Schneider-Creusot stands the Comite des Forges and above this all-powerful iron and steel organization stands the shadowy figure of Frangois de Wendel. M. de Wendel is regent of the Bank of France. He is a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He owns most of Le Journal des Debats. His international connections during the War were so powerful that, when the Germans took the French iron mines in the Briey basin, the French Army was forbidden to bombard the source of a great part of the ore Germany consumed during the War. With all Governments as their...
...Chicago footballer. Seventeen years ago he was president of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, American, Woman's Home Companion, Farm & Fireside). Ten years ago he was president and publisher of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner. Since 1926 he has been a vice president of National City Bank in Manhattan. Chicago newsmen remember "Buck" Buckley as a loud-cursing tough-acting man who really is mild and human. He now lives on Manhattan's upper East Side in a brownstone house with a front door painted an Irish green...