Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the questions to which Chairman Glass sought answers: 1) Why did 6,000 banks out of 30,000 fail in the U. S. in ten years? 2) What did the Federal Reserve do to check 1929 stock speculation? 3) What effect has branch banking on U. S. finance? 4) What new laws might stop excessive stock speculation? 5) What new powers does the Federal Reserve system need? 6) How can banks' security subsidiaries be controlled and regulated? 7) How can competition for bank charters between States and the Federal Government be reduced...
Kept open for all four systems would be the "bridge lines'' across the Hudson into New England?Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh & Hudson. Lehigh & New England. New York, Ontario & Western and the Rutland's Ogdensburg branch. Undisturbed was the trackage of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National...
...rumor has become current that there will be an attempt made in the near future to establish a branch of Yale at the Hotel Biltmore in New York. The "Yale News", for obvious purposes of subterfuge, has attributed the origin of this idea to a "very angry alumnus", so angry in fact that all attempts to discover his identity have proved a failure. Of course there may have been alumni, probably are, who, in a spirit of bitter irony made some such remark. But to put too much stock in the statement of any one individual, particularly such a mysterious...
...late Major Sir Henry O'Neal De-hane Segrave's best: 98.76 m. p. h. After breaking the record, one June day last year in Lake Windermere, Major Segrave forced Miss England II to 101.11 m. p. h., struck a water-logged tree branch, hurtled to his death. Last week the reconditioned Miss England II carried Racer Kaye Don 100 m. p. h. on Lough Neagh, Ireland, in a trial preparatory to attempting the world's record at Buenos Aires before the Prince of Wales. The sea-flea (outboard hydroplane) record...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Caskie Cabell Ritchie, 78, mother of Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, aunt of Author James Branch Cabell; of paralysis; in Annapolis, Md. During Governor Ritchie's three terms she was hostess in the Executive Mansion. Last fortnight she was too weak to attend his fourth inauguration, heard it by radio from across the street...