Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call for a convention and suspended 15 board members including Messrs. Frankensteen. Mortimer and potent little Walter Reuther of Detroit. They retaliated by impeaching him. He caught them napping. Early one morning he and a dozen huskies marched into U. A. W. headquarters, seized the union records and bank books, locked the offices, transferred everything to Mr. Martin's suite in the Eddystone Hotel...
Thus by the week end the Labor scene was in turmoil. Homer Martin, who seemed on his way to fame & power in 1937, was on the outside looking in at C. I. O. Two leaderships laid claim to U. A. W.'s contracts, bank accounts, membership. John L. Lewis' receivership for the union was itself in temporary bankruptcy. It appeared that only the rank & file could save U. A. W. from permanent disruption. And the shadow of a new figure appeared on the U. A. W. stage...
...some time, British police had feared that increasing thefts of gelignite from military storehouses forecast an epidemic of bank robberies. Last week, however, they had enough evidence to convince them that the missing gelignite was not in the hands of yeggs but was being used by zealous Irish terrorists to write another bloody chapter in 700 years of strife between Britain and Ireland...
...reported that Scotland Yard officials traced a wad of English banknotes found on one of the prisoners to a German bank. This tended to confirm the suspicions of many Britons that the Nazis were not above backing the terrorist activities of the I. R. A., as German guns and ammunition backed the Irish revolutionaries in the Easter Rebellion...
...credited with either the genius or the stubbornness of Dr. Schacht, Dr. Funk is not expected long to resist the demands of those Nazi radicals who have wanted to print bank notes against such newly created wealth as public buildings, roads. They have professed to be less interested in how much gold a ten-mark note represents than how much bread it will buy. As if in expectation of inflation, values on the German stockmarket rose in terms of marks, while German bonds elsewhere sank lower...