Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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East River Savings Bank...
...well-pressed, well-cut haberdashery and on his greying head rested a finely-woven Panama that swayed to the least puff of breeze. He "had nothing to say about the future," Neither confirmed nor denied reports that he would later head the divorced securities affiliate of National City Bank, from whose chairmanship he had resigned...
...time newshawks seriously put that question Uncle Henry was already a wheat hero, cackling to everyone his best anecdotes about the days when President Wilson sent him as Wartime Ambassador to Turkey and such yarns as the one about the time he caught Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England "with his vest unbuttoned." (Governor Norman, lolling back with unbuttoned vest, refused to loan an additional ?1,000,000 to Mr. Morgenthau's Greek Refugee Settlement Commission until reminded that the Greek Government could withdraw a ?2,000,000 gold deposit from the Bank of England and take...
...bandit raid attempted to seize $50,000 Mex. from the Mukden branch of National City Bank...
...Eaton's fight against the Bethlehem-Youngstown merger that blasted his fame & fortune. He wanted Youngstown for his own big Republic Steel but the battle was fought in the name of industrial independence for the Midwest. To finance that battle Continental Shares pledged most of its assets for bank loans. The Eaton victory was Pyrrhic. By 1931 slumping stock prices pushed his loans under water and Cleveland bankers ousted him as president in favor of George Taylor Bishop, a semi-retired financier. Cyrus Eaton disappeared from the headlines as completely as if he had died. Last week bushy-browed...