Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saratoga Waters Corp. was organized by Mr. Louis W. Noland and Mr. Leslie R. Rounds, who is now Deputy Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in order to carry out the terms of a lease negotiated by Mr. Noland and Mr. Rounds, who were to manage the same, with the then Saratoga State Reservation Commission in 1915. I was not at that time a member of that Commission, having had to resign because my obligations as a Government Director and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York prevented my longer continuance in any other...
...when Daniel O'Connell insisted that $40,000 was all they would get. Aware that the money was marked, the extortionists threatened to kill young O'Connell and "dump him on the doorstep" unless they were given opportunity to exchange it at a New York bank. The uncles acquiesced...
...TIME, June 26 et seq.)- Vice-Chief U. S. Delegate James M. Cox praised the Conference's 500 experts, remarking that "100 of them have been working together at various conferences for ten years." In his final speech Mr. Cox, unable to praise his Monetary Commission, praised the Bank for Interna tional Settlements at Basle, Switzerland as a world force for sound banking which, he said, had helped the Conference. "We can easily foresee," he cried without explaining what he meant, "an entirely new order created by the Bank of International Settlements. ... Of course it can have no arbitrary...
Many petitioners belong to the Confraternity of St. Christopher, have a medal inscribed: "Gaze upon St. Christopher, then go your way reassured." The medal carries an image of St. Christopher crossing a turbulent river with the Christ Child on his shoulder. In the background, as on a river bank, is an old-fashioned touring car with a long wheelbase, rakish fenders. Motorists tack the medal on the dashboards of their cars or above the windshield. Others carry the medal as a pocket piece...
...Claim holders listened to his advice as to an oracle. His friends considered his record as an investor as spotless as his reputation as a scientist. Nevertheless they were surprised at the size and liquidity of his holdings when he died. He had some French gold, a sheaf of Bank of England notes, accounts in one British and nine U. S. banks. A bachelor, he divided most of his $10,000,000 hoard between the American Philosophical Society and the Geological Society of America. The latter body long pondered what to do with its income, was glad to help...