Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...testified at the trial. It was doubtless Kelly who threatened also to kidnap Peggy Ann, daughter of Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas unless he pardoned some Bailey gangsters now in Kansas Penitentiary. And Kelly was even linked to last week's robbery of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank which resulted in the murder of a policeman...
Chicago's drab old Auditorium, which made opera news long before Samuel Insull ever thought of building his handsome Civic Opera House up on the river bank, last week made news twice. Mr. Insull's theatre was as dark as a haunted house, gave every promise of remaining so. But the Auditorium was fully lighted and will be for some time to come. Fortune Gallo's 20-year-old San Carlo Opera Company ("Dollar Opera") began an indefinite engagement there, in its first week had record sellouts for five nights running (18,325 paid admissions...
...machinery and new equipment to replace old plant facilities, the hope being that savings in repairs will come out of the use of new machinery. Similarly, purchases will be stimulated in stocks of commodities which would normally be sold over a period of time when fabricated or processed. Banks are not willing to give credit in many of these cases because of the absence of quick assets in the statements of the borrowing companies. The latter have had their reserves depleted by the deficits of the depression, yet have plant and machinery to offer as collateral for their loans. Many...
William Ross McCain, brother of Chairman Charles Simonton McCain of Chase National Bank, was elected president of Aetna Insurance Co., succeeding Ralph Burkett Ives who became board chairman...
Appointed to succeed the late Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzès, as Wolf Lieutenant for the Department of Seine-et-Oise, France, was Baron Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, head of the Rothschild Bank in France, regent of the Bank of France, president of the Counsel of Administration of the Chemin de fer du Nord...