Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upshot of the meeting was 1) a decision to inaugurate two more Government banks to finance foreign trade, like the Export-Import Bank formed last month to facilitate trade with Russia. Mr. Peek -who had brought to the meeting a man-sized plan for the creation of a Foreign Trade Administration-accepted the presidency of the three banks. 2) A tariff message from the President is expected to be sent to Congress this week...
...Bank of France and its affiliates, with the munitions and gun-works in Japan and Czechoslovakia...
...less than $2,000,000,000. This includes both exports and imports. But the development of foreign trade cannot be accomplished in the present state of world currency troubles and tariff restrictions unless there is a consolidation of export and import business under government financing. Hence an export bank has been set up under George Peek, and President Roosevelt has asked Congress for power negotiate reciprocal tariffs...
...easily find figures on anything going on in New York. He gets a report on the amount of snow that has fallen every hour during a storm, and knows how much money is being spent in cleaning it up. He can tell you the amount of capital behind any bank, and knows the stock exchange quotations perfectly...
...easy after the shooting is over to outline what police, bank clerks, and on-lookers should do to forestall the escape of gunmen, and to suggest that telephoning the police in the event of a hold-up should be the first thought to occur to the most inexperienced in the ways of gangsters. Likewise, from all sides comes advice concerning teletype, vault alarms, swiftness of justice, and consolidated detective agencies, yet few take seriously any suggestion to enforce strictly the limiting of machine gun sales to authorized persons...