Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smalltown bankers grinned and bore it without a whimper. Now that the shoe pinches it is the big bank and the big banker that makes more noise than a pig under a fence. It is the big banker who goes to the R. F. C. and it is the big banker who started the banking holiday. The little banker keeps on and on despite the onus that has been given to his profession. Give the smalltown banker credit for a job well done. ALLEN D. RUSSELL Plymouth Savings Bank Plymouth, Mass...
...Berle shows that business men, as a class have had this noble ability and initiative in the past; that there has been a day when a bank director who enriched himself while serving with a bank was looked on by the depositors with the contempt with which the intelligent public now regards a mayor who has reaped similar benefits in office. America should obviously have some prize in its patronage kit, wholly non-political in its nature, to give to a business leader who leads in business, not in income-tax returns. A college degree to such a noble fellow...
...soup-plate. In 1931 he proved this by taking a trip around the world's periphery. When he returned he bragged to newsmen that he was "worth $10,000,000" (TIME, March 16, 1931). He owned everything in Zion, which included candy bar, cookie and lace factories, bank, department store, publishing house, cement plant, bakery. Last week Mr. Voliva was an involuntary bankrupt and his Zion industries were in receivership. Liabilities were listed at $800,000, assets at $2,000,000, mostly frozen. For two years 5,000 Zion employes had received no regular pay checks, although they...
...newspapers. James Middleton Cox or Representative Chester Bolton of Ohio. John J. Raskob. Rarely had the principal in a major transaction effected such complete anonymity. Revelation was promised after the District Court should confirm the sale. Meanwhile some shrewd guessers eyed Eugene Meyer, onetime governor of the Federal Reserve Bank. Supposed motive: promotion of a Republican comeback...
...words were exciting, galvanic. Accountant Russell T. Sherwood, so-called "fiscal agent" of slick Ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, had run away two years ago when a legislative committee wanted to ask him who actually owned the $1,000,000 which allegedly had passed through his bank and brokerage accounts. His was the testimony, never obtained which would definitely have nailed down the corruption case against Walker, or quashed it. Shortly after skipping town Sherwood turned up briefly in Mexico City with a new wife. Since then, no trace. The Press, which takes enormous pride in finding fugitives when authorities fail...