Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room in which Count Csáky stood represented only a small part of the detailed workmanship and great wealth that had been poured into Hungary's impressive Houses of Parliament. Standing on the Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World...
...impoverished Poles is the pleasant unhistoric chateau in which President Raczkiewicz will reside, surrounded by spreading vegetable gardens and big cow pastures. With any luck, the new Polish colony of 75 in Angers will be able to grow much of its own food. The gold reserve of the Bank of Poland was successfully smuggled out during the German invasion, gives the expatriate Government a fat nest egg of $80,000,000-but it is not supposed to be used for current expenses...
...unjaundiced eye, radio chuck-a-lucks like Mu$1co and Pot o' Gold (TIME, Oct. 16) may seem a natural radio retort to cinema's screeno, bingo, bank night, etc. But cinemanagers hate to have their potential customers stay home in the evening. Last month astute, 50-year-old Manager Bob Livingston of the Lincoln, Neb. Capitol tried a remedy for the lure of one radio rainbow: $1,000 to anyone sitting in his theatre instead of at home Tuesday nights when Pot o' Gold's $1,000 telephone call comes. Odds against his losing: about...
Last week Mr. Cummings cut the umbilical cord between his bank and RFC, announced that Continental Illinois would buy back the last $25,000,000 of its preferred in one batch...
...laws of primogeniture and entail, which permitted handing down intact such estates as that of the Van Rensselaers (3,000 farms, 436,000 acres). Far more complicated is Author Myers' tracing of that tradition in the struggle against "corporation aristocracy" and inherited wealth. From Andrew Jackson v. the Bank of the U. S. down, it is a fight in which inherited wealth wins the battles and loses the war. Value of Author Myers' documentation is that he keeps his eye on the whole war instead of just on the battles...