Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bank, N. J.-his stable of flat-racers (across the road from his aunt...
...years at least has any bank belonging to the New York Clearing House failed to pay its depositors in full. Last week a conservator was placed in charge of a New York Clearing House bank and if he is not able to make good that bank's deposits out of assets (and possible subscriptions by stockholders), the aristocratic record of the Clearing House will be broken...
...well might it have seemed so, for the nephew of the late mighty Railroader Edward Henry Harriman was no tuppenny personage. At the age of 16, he began his career as a bank clerk. The star of the Harrimans being in the ascendant, at 35 he became a vice president of the Merchants National. Meanwhile his uncle had tussled with Hill and his Cousin Anne had married William K. Vanderbilt. Young Joe became a person of at least social consequence. He married Augusta Barney of Jersey City Heights and like his cousins William Averell and Edward Roland Harriman...
...entered the firm of Harriman & Co., founded by his brother and father, and he also became president of the Night & Day Bank (open ail night). E. H. Harriman was one of the directors and a large stockholder. After his death the $100,000,000 estate of the great Widow Harriman bought more of the bank's stock. In 1911 the Night & Day became the Harriman National with Joe Harriman still as president. No scandal adhered to Joe Harriman's banking career unless it was that in 1923 the Harriman National, to Wall Street's horror, lent...
...rounded out his career. In 1924 he retired from Harriman & Co.; in 1927 he erected a new building for his bank on Fifth Avenue. The Harriman Estate retired from the bank and Joe became the Harriman of Harriman National. Last July, as fitted his age, he was elected chairman of the bank where he presided over such well-advertised directors as Julius Lichtenstein (Consolidated Cigar). Amos Sulka (shirts), Boykin Cabell Wright (Cotton Franklin, Wright & Gordon...