Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child during the Civil War. He worked his way through four years of college, tried carpentering, tried bookkeeping and finally borrowed $3,000 to buy a one-half interest in a small lumber company. Lumber led to paper and paper to International Falls, where he organized his own bank, formed his own telephone company and, after James J. Hill refused to enter the territory, built his own railroads. A rugged individualist of the Ford school, he hates & fears the banker, denounces all curtailment agreements among newsprint makers as "restraints of trade." Last week when the banker regime...
...FIRST BILLION : The Stillmans and the National City Bank-John K. Winkler-Vanguard ($2.50). Once upon a time bankers were considered the pillars of Church & State. Even 25 years ago such a word as "bankster" would have been blasphemous. But not now. For these onetime gods of the U. S. scene twilight has come. If keepers of other people's money continue to lose caste at the present rate, "banker"' may some day be an insult. And some future Lytton Strachey will have a gay time humanizing the pre-1929 financiers to less than lifesize. Such a student...
...Pecora: Were you . . . active in the discharge of your duties as a bank director...
Another important version of the Detroit debacle was given by Alfred P. Leyburn, chief national bank examiner in the Detroit area. His points...
Reopening the Union Guardian: Why, it would have taken Houdini to open that bank...