Word: bankster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FIRST BILLION : The Stillmans and the National City Bank-John K. Winkler-Vanguard ($2.50). Once upon a time bankers were considered the pillars of Church & State. Even 25 years ago such a word as "bankster" would have been blasphemous. But not now. For these onetime gods of the U. S. scene twilight has come. If keepers of other people's money continue to lose caste at the present rate, "banker"' may some day be an insult. And some future Lytton Strachey will have a gay time humanizing the pre-1929 financiers to less than lifesize. Such a student...
...collateral. The bank's president, his friend Joseph Wright Harriman, took the securi ties and, without Dr. Butler's knowledge or consent, used them to raise a $275,000 loan. He wrote Dr. Butler thanks for the securities "which you have loaned me." Last week Bankster Harriman was in Bellevue Hospital too ill to stand trial for misuse of his bank's funds, and Dr. Butler was in Federal Court, Brooklyn, suing to recover the securities from Harriman National's conservator. Defense counsel asked: "Why didn't you kick up a row then [when Harriman...
...again & again. Last year, when Catharine Brody published Nobody Starves, many of them hailed book and author with pent-up fervor. Though Cash Item disobeys the strictest canon of proletarian literature by having a "hero," a "heroine." its attack on U. S. economic conditions in general, on small-town banksters in particular, should raise more proletarian huzzas. Plain readers will find it uncomfortably interesting reading. More effective as anti-bankster propaganda than a more straightforward indictment, Cash Item is writtten in bare, matter-of-fact, day-to-day style. Authoress Brody lets her ordinary people's hopeless predicament...
...securities from the Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., whose onetime President Joseph Wright Harriman, now awaiting trial for falsification of his books, is Dr. Butler's good friend. In January 1932, to protect $125,000 worth of securities which he had bought. Dr. Butler borrowed $126,000 from Bankster Harriman, turned over his securities to the bank. Bankster Harriman used them to raise a $150,000 loan for his wife. Because he had originally given the securities, now worth $325,000. in trust, Dr. Butler demanded that the bank return them. But the bank's Attorney Abraham Freedman...
...your paragraph in the June 5 issue, p. 13, in which the last lines read: "They saw their deposits which they had spent a life time to build up and protect with their good names confiscated by the Government to pay for the mistakes and dishonesty of every smalltown bankster...