Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a bullet in his neck, also escaped. Two days later, while the British gunboat Cicala stood by, Chinese extricated three bullet-riddled bodies from the transport, sunk in 40 feet of water. Among the missing were President Hsu Sing-loh of the National Commercial Savings Bank and General Manager Hu Pei-kong of the Bank of Communications...
This week the German Dictator, in what Frenchmen saw as a most tactless gesture, came with a glittering retinue of generals to inspect Nazi war defenses on the bank of the Rhine directly across from Alsace-Lorraine. Sir Neville Henderson, the British Ambassador to Germany, abruptly flew to London and the I. S. Ambassador to Germany, Hugh Wilson flew to Paris. Mr. Wilson conferred with U. S. Ambassador to France, William Christian Bullitt, and to join them U. S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, broke off his vacation on the Riviera. Top-rank diplomats do not thus dash about unless...
Furthermore, since "small industry does not have the same access to the capital market as does large industry" there should be "a real system of capital credit banks ... a system which would have to be backed by a capital reserve bank . . . able to create credit, and to join in contracting it when necessary...
...Robert) Stanley, fat, red, fiftyish, took over. Trained in the Dollar lumber camps, R. Stanley had a hard time figuring out the financial maze his father had managed so shrewdly. He got help from Herbert and Mortimer Fleishhacker and their Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. Straightway, the Dollar maze got mazier. Criss-crossed family corporations were set up, existing companies expanded. Soon the Dollar Line owed Anglo California some $3,000,000; and of the Dollar stock, the Fleishhackers owned 109,000 shares, the Dollars...
Argentina has a high credit rating in the U. S. It borrows frequently, pays its interest with the punctuality of a conservative savings bank. Remembering that last year a long-term Argentine issue went for 91, insiders figured the Government was unwilling to let its short-term loan go for the price (93-95) the underwriters reputedly were planning...