Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of world-famed Jewish medical men was thinned as specialists and hospital heads chose death by their own hands. Other prominent suicides were bespectacled Baron Odo Neustaedter-Stuermer, a Heimwehr leader under Dollfuss; Financier Gottfried Kunwald and Dr. Otto Russo, director of Austria's largest bank, the Oesterreichische Credit-Anstalt. At week's end erudite Egon Friedell, Jewish historian and playwright, jumped to his death from a fourth-floor window...
After lunch they looked at Albuquerque's buildings, rode on Albuquerque policemen's motorcycles, squealed as they rode up the elevator to the top of Albuquerque's eight-story First National Bank Building. Although their hosts had not planned it, they were educated in pain as well as pleasure: as they watched Albuquerque's firemen climb a building, a rope broke. Firemen Frank Parenti and George Tafoya fell 40 feet, were seriously injured. The children agreed to spend part of the money they had been saving for playground equipment to send flowers to the firemen...
...Russia, where physicians developed the art of preserving the blood of accident victims in order to build up a reserve or "blood bank" for transfusions,*eye specialists who pioneered in the art of transplanting new corneas to the eyes of the blind have recently established "cornea banks," by removing the corneas of dead people for use in transplanting operations...
...Bartlett Eastman and Charles Delahunt Mahaffie, Senators Burton Kendall Wheeler and Harry S. Truman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Chairman Clarence Frederick Lea of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee. President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, President Henry Bruere of Manhattan's Bowery Savings Bank, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Draper, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones, SEC Chairman William 0. Douglas and Farm Security Administrator Will W. Alexander. After these 14 worthies had put their heads together with President Roosevelt, he informed a press conference that the group would meet...
Justice Brandeis, who still gives advice now and then to shaggy, crusading Deputy Commissioner Judd Dewey, would list the following reasons for the notable success of his idea: 1) Primary tenet of the Brandeis economic faith is that efficiency decreases with size. Savings banks are small, decentralized. And of course their life insurance departments are controlled by the same State reserve laws that control all insurance companies. 2 ) Terms in most cases are more beneficial to the policyholders. Most old-line policies cannot be turned in for cash till after the third year and then there is a surrender charge...