Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excerpt from a Nanking letter written at the worst period: "One [Chinese] boy of seventeen came in with the tale of about 10,000 Chinese men between the ages of 15 and 30 who were led out of the city on the 14th [of January] to the river bank near the ferry wharf. There the Japanese opened up on them with field guns, hand grenades and machine guns. Most of them were then pushed into the river, some were burned in huge piles, and three managed to escape. Of the 10,000 the boy figured there were about...
...last week 14 students of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute roved with studied aimlessness through the city of Troy, N. Y. Everywhere they went they collected pennies from shopkeepers and gasoline station attendants for a "penny-ante poker game." Other students marched in to Troy's four commercial banks, flourished paper currency, demanded change-in pennies. In one bank the manager reluctantly dumped 100,000 pennies into canvas bags, turned them over to students for $1,000 in bills.* A laundry truck driver toured the city collecting pennies from housewives. Unaware of this concerted raid until too late, merchants, housewives...
...Last week the paper called for volunteers to distribute copies in Union Square May i, under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin, "to bring to those taking part in these demonstrations some measure of light to offset their materialist idealism." The editors confessed they had only 92? in the bank, issued one of their periodic appeals for funds. Subscribing themselves "Lovingly and confidently yours in Christ the Worker," they wrote: "We have reached rock bottom, we have piled up bills these many weeks. So we beg your help. Please send us what you can and may the Holy Family love...
...characters of What People Said are drawn from two of Athena's leading families. Idealistic Charles Aldington Carrough is a famed country editor and Progressive. His closest friend is persuasive, charming Banker Isaac Norssex. Their sons share the family friendship. Lee Norssex goes into his father's bank. Junior Carrough, a Rhodes Scholar, goes to work on his father's newspaper, marries a shrewd New York newspaper woman, is elected to the State legislature. Occasionally he backs some bond legislation or kills a news story at Lee's suggestion...
...bank examiner discovers that the secret of Lee's success is heavy bond forgery. It is the end of his career, but only half of What People Said. The rest of the story unfolds the scope of Lee's crookedness, which runs like a sulphurous fuse from Banker Norssex to the Progressive Governor's Mansion. According to Junior and his wife, it sputters just as stinkingly in the homes of the suddenly "unbearably honest" Oklaradans, since they tolerate a society that breeds embezzlers and hypocrites, as it breeds the unemployed who snarl so ominously in Athena...