Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both Senate and House held hearings. Banker James P. Warburg, Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, Professor O. M. W. Sprague and several Reserve Bank officials criticized one or several aspects of the President's plans for the dollar. The House Coinage Committee received Father Coughlin of Detroit with open arms, posed with him for pictures, came member by member and whispered in his ear. and attended in awed silence while he declared...
...Nauvoo, Ill., a howling mob shot a onetime candidate for President of the U. S. The victim was Joseph Smith, patriarch of the Mormon Church, and the year was 1844. Last week there was more violence in Nauvoo. Four men, armed with a machine gun and revolvers, raided the Bank of Nauvoo, fled with nearly $8,000 in cash...
...Inside East Chicago's First National Bank one afternoon last week terrified customers and employes were lined up by two Indiana desperadoes, John Dillinger and John Hamilton. Outside were eight policemen. John Hamilton took time to scoop up $20,376. Then, using Vice President Walter Spencer as a shield, the gunmen battled their way to an accomplice's car, fled in a hail of bullets. On the sidewalk lay the riddled body of William P. O'Malley, fourth police victim of the Dillinger gang in three months' banditry...
...Basle, Switzerland officials of the World Bank voiced conviction that the Roosevelt Administration in seizing the world's largest gold hoard would set a "bad example" to politicians of other countries...
Classes are held one evening each week. In the directors room of American State Savings Bank citizens wrestle with Political Science ("Business brains becoming active here, will build stronger political leadership") under Businessman John F. Brisbin, assisted by Clothing Merchant Louis May and Editorial Writer Glenn K. Stimson of the Lansing State Journal. Division Superintendent F. W. Openlander of Reo Motor Car Co. goes to Olds Motor Administration Building to lead discussions of Current Industrial Problems. Lawyer William H. Wise teaches Effective Speaking ("Not more talk, but more effective talk") at the Reo Club House. James E. Moroney, young Olds...