Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told of a Harvard professor, now a powerful member of the Roosevelt "Brain-Trust," who a few weeks ago entered on a petty transaction with a small bank near Central Square. The president of the bank sent the customary letter to the professor's regular bankers in Cambridge asking for references and confirmation of the latter's credit. He received the following answer...
...Stock of the bank and the securities company was held share for share by the same stockholders. At one time stock certificates of both companies were both printed on the same sheet of paper...
...onetime Attorney General of Wisconsin; Philip La Follette, onetime Governor of Wisconsin; Mills Bee Lane, Savannah banker; Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois; Orrin K. McMurray, Dean of the University of California's law school; Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan; John C. Traphagen. president of Bank of New York & Trust Co.; President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth; Thomas Day Thacher, onetime solicitor general; Quincy Wright, University of Chicago Economist...
...Manhattan and the Broadway stage. But things were too much for her. Her worthless father died and Deena's hard-won savings went to pay for the funeral. She settled rebelliously down in Micmac, went back to work to get more money. When she met young Larry, bank teller in the local cathedral of commerce, the weather seemed a little brighter. Larry was a steady young fellow but those were boom days: the funny business that his superior banksters were involved in finally dragged him in too. When the boom broke and the bank was caught in the rush...
This measure is purely and simply one designed to fill the dormitories on the right bank of the Charles, and the attempt to clothe it in the gleaming armour of a noble motive is unpleasant. It is, however, typical of the official Harvard hypocritical pose on a number of matters. The same smug assumption of generosity characterizes the University's distribution of scholarships and jobs. The scholarships are the work of philanthropists most of whom have passed to their reward, and are beyond the reach of deserved thanks; student aid in the form of jobs comes mostly from the pockets...