Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinema tributes to historical celebrities are often ungratefully received. Last November, descendants of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had 17 children, growled because Suez failed to show that their progenitor had married. Last week, after a Hollywood preview of Jesse James, Miss Jo Frances James, not a bank robber but a Los Angeles bank executive, said: "About the only connection it had with fact was that there was once a man named James and he did ride a horse...
...happened, however, that Japan's Minister of Finance, Seihin Ikeda, was formerly managing director of the vast Mitsui Bank (he was rumored marked for assassination in the February 1936 uprising of young army officers) and his daughter married into one of Japan's four wealthiest families. For long he has rebelled at the army's proposal; last week it was rumored that, for the sake of his conscience and his skin, he was getting out. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, golf-playing descendant of a long line of courtiers, has from the beginning disliked his job. For 19 months...
With the possible exception of J. P. Morgan, the name George Fisher Baker is the most illustrious in U. S. banking. Side-whiskered George Fisher Baker descended from Troy, N. Y., in 1863 helped found Manhattan's great First National Bank. His son followed him at its helm...
After the death of Board Chairman George Fisher Baker Jr. in May 1937, the First National Bank for the first time in 74 years had no Baker on its payroll. Last week George Fisher Baker 3rd, 23, returned from a round-the-world honeymoon to remedy that situation. He went to work at No. 2 Wall Street-as a runner...
Shortly after he left Harvard, Dresser sent the only known correspondence since December 7, to his mother, Mrs. Frank L. Waldo, from New York City. Preceding his departure, Dresser handed his resignation to the University and withdrew $300 from the bank...