Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston last week a spinster poured out a bag of walnuts on a bank counter. A teller smashed them open, found in each pair of neatly glued shells a $5 gold-piece. In Waukesha, Wis., an elderly woman passed a handful of gold-pieces to a bank teller. "They're good," she said. "That's just a little mildew on them. I kept them in a bottle hanging by a string in my well." In Manhattan all one evening the dark cavern of Maiden Lane echoed with unaccustomed footsteps as one after another, clerks, stenographers, women in shawls...
Examiner Leyburn: "So's that bank...
Sometimes the U. S. Senate can find out more about a business than even its own officers know. In Washington last October, when Albert Henry Wiggin was testifying on stock pools, it became evident that Winthrop Williams Aldrich, new head of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, was hearing a number of things "for the first time. Mr. Wiggn's testimony was also news to Mr. Aldrich's brother-in-law, John D. Rockefeller Jr., biggest Chase stockholder. Neither Mr. Aldrich nor Mr. Rockefeller liked what the Senate turned up for them. Last week it became public knowledge...
Facing his stockholders and reading his annual report. Banker Aldrich came to what was probably the longest and most uninspired sentence of all the long and uninspired sentences read by bank officers to their stockholders last week: "The board of directors has appointed a special committee of directors to consider such matters as may have been disclosed or touched upon at the recent hearings with reference to the bank and its affairs before the subcommittee of the Committee on Banking & Currency of the United States Senate, with authority to select, employ and consult with special counsel concerning such of these...
...drafted to manage foreign exchange for the U. S., the man who had been virtual dictator of U. S. exchange during the days of disordered money in the War. Fred L Kent of Bankers Trust Co., having held his job as exchange expert of the New York Federal Reserve Bank for ten months, last week announced that he had organized his division in the bank so that it could run itself, handed in his resignation...