Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salvation Army mobilized for peace-prayer services throughout the world. In London spry, 72-year-old General Evangeline Booth led 500 of her followers to a hall on the bank of the Thames, put them through prayer-drill with martial commands, "Shut your eyes!" "Clasp your hands!" "Get down on your knees!" "Stand...
...goods for his personal use abroad (and pay 100% tax) with the remainder or accept German blocked-marks in exchange, since Nazi currency restrictions forbid the export of more than $12-$24 in cash after payment of passage. These blocked-marks may be sold only to the German Government Bank at a 92% discount. Last week it was revealed that since the start of the Nazi regime more than $500,000,000 worth of refugee property has been put under Government control...
More than a month ago, Publisher Stern arranged to get new money not only for the Post but for his Record-$1,000,000 for the latter, principally from Philadelphia's Federal Reserve Bank, of which Dave Stern is a onetime advisory director, and nearly $2,000,000 for the former from "outside sources." In addition, on the Post, a $5,000-a-week budget cut was begun. Of its 142 editorial employes, twelve were fired-as were 23 of 180 Record editorial employes. The financial pages of both papers were dropped. And Dave Stern, whose papers...
Last week, Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs, Theatrical Producer Lee Shubert and Jai-Alai Promoter Richard Berenson pooled their backgrounds and bank accounts to introduce the Cuban national game to Broadway. With all the éclat of a Hollywood première, Promoters Jacobs, Shubert & Berenson transformed the famed old Hippodrome into a jai-alai fronton (at a cost of $100,000), exhibited 30 of the world's top-notch jai-alaiers in a demonstration of what has been called the "fastest game in the world...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., sixth largest U. S. Steel producer, $30,000,000 in 4% convertible debentures-$12,500,000 to repay bank loans, $17,500,000 for expansion. The issue, postponed when it was first proposed last October, sold sluggishly. Underwriters headed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co. were said to have nearly $4,500,000 left on their hands...