Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the campaign young Congressman Bulkley accused the American Bankers Association of bad temper and loss of dignity and some old bankers called him a radical. But when he was defeated for re-election in 1914, he resumed an orderly Cleveland career, as chairman of the Morris Plan Bank, ardent supporter of local opera, squire of a lakefront estate in Bratenahl, swankest of the city's 41 suburbs. The angel of Ohio's Democracy during the lean '20s, he asserted himself by running for an unexpired Senate term as a Wet in 1930, won by so large...
...Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped him back behind bars. This was the signal for Commissioner Herlands to bring his fight into the open, which he did by blanketing Brooklyn with 1,402 subpoenas for financial records and bank accounts, to expose the workings of the Geoghan office since...
...shipped into Hong Kong have eventually reached Generalissimo Chiang-the 700-mile Canton-Hankow Railway. At week's end Japanese contingents landed on both sides of the Pearl River delta, one column slashing communications between Canton and Portuguese Macao on the coast, another striking on the east bank near Hong Kong. A Japanese War Office spokesman announced in Tokyo: "Japan is fixed in her determination to crush Chiang Kai-shek's regime; we do not intend to take Hong Kong or Singapore or advance southward in the Pacific; but we must and will carry out our program...
...Chamber of Commerce declared: "All of the evidence points to some improvement in business. ... It is too early to know the strength present trends will develop. ..." The New York Times was less optimistic. Its business index fell and when commercial, industrial and agricultural loans by New York member banks of the Federal Reserve System shrank for the fifth week in succession, the Times committed itself to the prediction that this "pretty well smashed all hopes of a 'normal seasonal expansion' this autumn." Last week, however, bank debits to individual accounts continued to rise (now only 7% under...
...Jackson, Lincoln, Bryan and La Follette were Jeffersonians, and Franklin Roosevelt is one; Calhoun, Jeff Davis and many a later politician who considered himself a Jeffersonian made principles of what were only methods to the sage of Monticello. Tracing this division through the familiar story of Jackson and the Bank of the United States, to Bryan's part in Wilson's nomination, Author Agar often wanders far afield but enlivens his account with pungent political sermons. Indifference, self-seeking, the vulgarization of politics outrage him most, and the apathy of citizens before political corruption he considers...