Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auburn Street boys became suspicious when he saw that the published odds were 2 to 1 on Harvard. He called up the bank and stopped payment on all the checks. Then he and his cronies kidnapped the assistant with lures of more bets, holding him until he confessed...
...because a proposed Ham & Eggs amendment to the State Constitution promised $30 every Thursday to retired citizens over 50 years of age, not because it would have compelled the Governor to name a leader of Ham & Eggs to administer the act, not because it would set up a State bank system with power to issue money, or that this money would be accepted by the State in payment of debt and taxes. What alarmed Mr. Pegler was that the story of Ham & Eggs could not be told "without a sense of shame and fear," and that the whole fantastic scheme...
...Issue enough more first mortgage bonds to pay off $5,500,000 of bank loans plus $14,750,000 owed RFC, and raise up to $26,000,000 cash for paying off if necessary. (Obviously if more than 50% of the bondholders demand cash the plan falls through...
Into the presidency of Kellogg stepped tall, grey-haired, grey-eyed William H. Vanderploeg (rhymes with Kalamazoo). Plucked from a vice-presidency in Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank last July, he had been Kellogg's executive vice president. To the chairmanship retired Will Keith, hoping to devote the rest of his life to his two big hobbies: 1) W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, which he established nine years ago to improve children's health (endowed with $46,000,000); 2) W. K. Kellogg Institute of Animal Husbandry (with 80-odd pure-bred Arabian horses...
This crack appeared in the bank's Letter, whose monthly summaries of business trends bring statistical kudos to a young Economist-Vice President, 45-year-old George Bassett Roberts, tall, owlish professorial son of the bank's economist-emeritus, 82-yeaR-old George Evan Roberts. In the same Letter last week Economist Roberts also published the nine-month earnings figures of his selected 320 corporations-a far better gauge than last quarter reports of how much real prosperity, ex-war-boom, U. S. business has achieved. By industrial groups these nine month earnings showed...