Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Randlett, Uintah County, Utah U.S.A., Retired; U.S.M.A., class 1902. Reference: Utah State National Bank (President of this Bank is Orval W. Adams, this year President of American Bankers' Association) ; also Hillsboro National Bank, Hillsboro...
...Francisco Franco sent general after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August. By week's end the Generalissimo had been at least half successful. The Rightists had reached the Ebro River bank along an eight-mile stretch formerly held by their enemy and the Leftist holdings had been reduced to a tiny circle around the main bridgehead at Mora de Ebro...
Last week Jimmy Walker turned on the radio audience the personality that once warmed the Board of Estimate. Over Station WMCA (Manhattan), on an hour of airtime donated by the Modern Industrial Bank, he took a microphone, a troupe of guest stars to Manhattan's grim Bellevue Hospital, did the first of 13 broadcasts called Jimmy Walker's Visiting Hour. His itinerary for the series includes other hospitals, an old ladies' home, many another haven for shut-ins. His job involves ad libbing a show which is half benefit, half heartstring jerker. Last week he interviewed patients...
Hollywood, to whom such phenomena should be as interesting as a $1,000,000 bank balance to a Wall Street broker, remains as stubbornly unaware of Autry as other U. S. population centres. Autry pictures rarely play in major Los Angeles theatres, and Autry is seldom recognized on the rare occasions when he appears in public. Irritated by his obscurity, the cinema's most popular star draws attention to himself by wearing cowboy clothes off screen as well as on, has a special white gabardine cowboy suit for evening wear. He takes off his cowboy suits only...
When, after getting to know the Carletons on board a train, the lonely old lady applies her creed to her new friends and the Carletons apply their technique to her bank account, the results are as might be expected. The Carletons move into the Fortune mansion in London to wait for the old lady to die and leave them all her money. Softened by years of living by their wits, they not only lack the moral fibre to take advantage of their hostess but even allow her to rob them of their resistance to right-living. They succumb so completely...