Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress, Dr. Ludwig boasted that the Nazi burning of his books and those of many another Jew and Pacifist, including Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), is helping to boost their world sales, quickening the flow of royalty checks to Switzerland where Friends Ludwig and Remarque bank their money in gold francs. "The night of the public burning of the books," said Author Ludwig. "I invited my friend, Erich Maria Remarque, to drink with me. We opened our oldest Rhine wine, turned on the radio, heard the flames crackling, heard the speeches of the Hitler spokesmen...
...race, with 1,161 points to 1,122 for Horace E. Dodge's Delphine VII. First craft to win the President's Cup twice, El Lagarto made a clean sweep of this year's important races of her class, including the National Sweepstakes at Red Bank, N. J., the Gold Cup at Detroit...
Federal Court in Chicago issued a temporary injunction against withdrawals from the Harris Trust & Savings Bank account of a Greek named Constantine S. Eftax. One Gus Lowry of Sullivan, Ind. charged that Eftax is really Samuel Insull, fugitive utilities magnate; that he deposited $1,000,000 in securities and gold bullion before he fled to Greece, draws $150 to $400 weekly interest on it. Lowry declared that "Eftax" recently tried to get $50,000 in gold out of the U. S., that the account should be appropriated for Insull stockholders. Harris Trust replied that the account amounts to only...
Twentieth Century is the first important new producing company formed in Hollywood in four years. It is a direct result of last spring's bank holiday and the consequent studio shutdown. When all Hollywood employes were on half-salary or less in March, Production Chief Darryl Francis Zanuck of Warner Brothers promised his underlings to restore their pay on the date set by the Cinema Academy...
...Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to "smell" coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess of Thurn & Taxis, for an accounting of her father's estate...