Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furious, long-continued action last week, Chinese troops, holding the south bank of the Grand Canal at Hanchwang, where it intersects the railway connecting Peking with Shanghai, not only kept the Japanese from crossing and drove them back again & again to the north bank, but finally stormed across the canal themselves. At Lini, 55 miles to the east, stubborn Chinese defenders still had not yielded the town, although pounded all week by Japanese artillery and bombers...
Meanwhile, the Premier engaged in a personal duel of words with the president of the Senate Finance Committee, Joseph Caillaux. Blum was trying to get authorization to borrow another $270,000.000 from the Bank of France to keep the country going for three and a half months, but the Senate thought that was giving the Premier too much rope, hauled him down to $150,000,000 hoping he would resign in a huff, but instead the Premier took what he could get. "Watch out," angry Blum told irate Caillaux, "lest in manifesting prejudice against our Government and distrust...
...height of its ceilings and the length of its flower garden in the back. He lives there with Margot, his late wife's daughter by a previous marriage, and his secretary, Fraulein Helen Dukas, who since Frau Einstein's death last year has looked after his bank account, his clothes and other things which to him are equally trivial. In the morning he works at home with his assistant, Dr. Peter G. Bergmann, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. In the afternoons he goes to his office in Fine Hall. In the evenings he goes...
...1920s an unhappy man named A. M. Johnson, head of National Life Insurance Co. of the U. S. A., bought for his company 11,050 shares of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. In 1929 Continental sold as high as $1,020 a share. In 1933 a share of Continental could be bought for precisely $1,000 less; Mr. Johnson's National Life Insurance Co. was, not surprisingly, in receivership. General Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co., which sells about everything else, decided that this was the time to go into the life insurance business. He formed Hercules Life...
...York law as passed last week provides that no bank can issue more than $1,000 insurance to one person and no life can be insured in the savings banks for more than $3,000. So insurance will be confined largely to the small industrial policies which the companies consider profitable but a perennial nuisance. Industrial insurance has attracted criticism out of all proportion to its size. In fact, an investigation of the insurance business is pending in Albany. Insurance companies will probably not be sorry to lose some of their industrial insurance business. Meanwhile, only a handful...