Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Group Health Association, Inc. Last year William F. Penniman, deputy governor of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, who was dismayed at the Board's loss of several hundred thousand dollars annually through sickness of employes, encouraged 1,000 Board workers to join the Group Health Association. Inc. Starting with a $40,000 loan from the Board, G. H. A. established a clinic with laboratory and X-ray departments, hired a staff of physicians, offered government employes complete health service and 21-day hospitalization at rates of $2.20 a month for single persons, $3.30 a month for families...
...contributor to them, but because when serving a brief term as a park commissioner he named almost everything but the city sidewalks after himself. Generally regarded as the West Coast's No. 2 financier (Amadeo Peter Giannini, No. 1), Herbert Fleishhacker for years has headed Anglo California National Bank, seen its deposits zoom from $4,500,000 to $200,000,000. Last week his career as a banker was over...
Last year a San Francisco judge found him guilty of pocketing emoluments of some $300,000 from a loan his bank made to a firm reselling Government steel after the War (TIME, Sept. 6, 1937, et seq.). This year another judge ordered him to pay damages of $651,579 for selling at too low a price some oil lands belonging to certain Lazard Frères heirs in 1915-17. Although he has appealed both cases. Herbert Fleishhacker last week cited them in turning in his resignation. "I feel," said he, "that the best interests of the bank...
...extreme northeast corner of Kentucky, on the south bank of the Ohio, lies Greenup County-a stretch of shaggy, greenbriered hill country, twelve miles wide and 20 miles long. Among the hill people of Greenup-great hunters, fighters, Baptists and Democrats from way back- young Jesse Stuart grew up. He lived at the head of W-Hollow, fished in Little Sandy, began to write poetry before he was out of school. "Them Stuart youngins is plum fools." said Neighbor John Hackless. "If them was youngins of mine, I'd whip their tails with a hickory...
That Whitman was a democrat everybody knows. But nobody has shown as clearly as Mr. Arvin what Whitman's democracy meant: stump speeches for the luckless Martin Van Buren, support for Tyler the Whig when Tyler took up Andrew Jackson's old fight against the United States Bank, disgust with party politics during the Democratic sellout before the Civil War, and always "strong images of a democratic and equal life-of 'ordinary' men and women working, building, making things, growing things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says...