Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fiscal 1934 Fiscal 1935 (in millions) (in millions) PWA $1,677 $1,090 Conservation Work. . 342 65 Bank Deposit Guarantee 150 none RFC 3,970 } Unforeseen Expenses 1,166} 2000 All Others...
...safe. In nearly all cases pawnshop profits go to charity. Thus the Paris Crédit Municipal is known respectfully as "Le Mont de Piéte" (The Mount of Piety) and with flippant affection as "ma tante" (my aunt). On the day President Roosevelt closed every U. S. bank more than 500 U. S. citizens obtained cash from Paris' Aunt...
...fleet of automobiles, a Wild West show (101 Ranch), a floodlighted tennis court. When he was arrested for forging nearly $1,000,000 worth of municipal bonds (TIME, Aug. 21) he precipitated a scandal such as few Kansans have ever begotten. But when his father, Warren Wesley Finney, bank president and pillar of Emporia society, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to from 36 to 600 years in jail (TIME, Dec. 11), it looked as if for once Ronald Finney was to be outdone...
...Atop a pinnacle of Wall Street power in 1930 sat Albert Henry Wiggin, chairman of the governing board of Chase National Bank, world's largest. Trailing down from this august height was a vast hierarchy of 85 directors, 80 vice presidents, 72 second vice presidents, a cashier and 107 assistants, two comptrollers and six assistants, 41 assistant trust officers, 31 assistant managers and some 8,000 employes. The president of Chase Bank held a relatively "minor" job, being outranked not only by Mr. Wiggin but also by the chairman of the executive committee and the chairman and vice chairman...
...that matter no department of the College, has suffered seriously to date from the inroads of the Brain Trust. While Columbia and Cornell have contributed the shining lights among the President's liberal advisers, Harvard has sent only her renowned John H. Williams to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Business School, by way of the Bank of England, proffered and then received back the stormy petrel of inflation, Oliver M. W. Sprague. It remained for the Law School, where liberalism burns with a less frozen flame, to uphold the University's reputation on capitol hill...