Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vehicle to bring George Bancroft back to the screen after an absence of 18 months, is a mildly exciting little treatise on the bail bond racket. Its hero, Bill Bailey (Bancroft), is a bluff bondsman who gets into difficulties with his underworld associates when, to pay back a bank thief for stealing his girl, he makes less sympathetic arrangements than usual. It is notable less for Bancroft's contribution than for its villainess (Frances Dee), a pretty, well-mannered debutante who is also a masochist, a kleptomaniac and an exhibitionist. Good shot: Miss Dee hurrying off to investigate...
When, at 22, Frank Michler Chapman got to be head of his bank department, he resigned. Banks were all right, but he liked birds better. In 1888 he went to work in Manhattan's American Museum. For the past 25 years he has been the Museum's curator-in-chief of birds. He has done as much as any man living to teach his countrymen to know and love birds. He originated the Museum's brilliantly realistic habitat groups; founded a magazine Bird-Lore; lectured widely; composed standard guides and handbooks for amateurs...
...John William Davis uprose to outline to a jury the defense of one of the most complex cases the onetime presidential nominee had ever handled. He began by setting out eight paper cups and a tumbler of water on a table. While he described the involved dealings of defunct Bank of United States, he poured the water from tumbler to cup, from cup to cup and finally from cup to tumbler. "When it is all over," smiled elderly, benign Mr. Davis, ''you see that not a drop is spilled in the transaction, not even a dollar gained...
This was more than a trial of Isidor Jacob Kresel, the sad-faced, gnomish little attorney who had been a director and general counsel of Bank of United States when it crashed three years ago. He had been tripped by the same deal which had sent to Sing Sing Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, president and vice president respectively of the bank. This particular deal was but an infinitesimal segment of a ring-around-a-rosy scheme to have certain affiliates pay off loans to the parent bank, involving five distinct series of transactions among six subsidiaries...
...Beef Trust" probe, an inquisitor of Manhattan's ambulance-chasing racket, and one of the most brilliant trial lawyers in the U. S. As inquisitor in the judicial investigation of New York City's magistrates' courts in 1930 he had achieved nationwide fame. The very day Bank of United States was closing its doors, Manhattan newspapers were calling Isidor Kresel "the swift sword of public conscience." Few weeks later, indicted along with seven other Bank of United States officers and their relatives, Counsel Kresel was fingerprinted at police headquarters. The special prosecutor who secured the indictments...