Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long of Louisiana glared pugnacious defiance across the Senate Chamber at Virginia's famed Carter Glass. The bill that "won't go through before March 4" was Senator Glass's to revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved his arms in mighty circles. He bludgeoned the Senate with loud arrogant words. He drove most of his colleagues from the Chamber in utter disgust. But almost single-handed he did succeed in stalling all important Senate business...
...Debated a bill by Virginia's Glass to reform the U. S. banking system, heard Louisiana's loud young Long tell its aged sponsor: "I happen to know a great deal more about branch banking than you have had a chance to know." ¶Adopted a resolution by Tennessee's McKellar calling upon the Civil Service Commission to report all Federal jobs outside Civil Service and open to "deserving" Democrats after March 4. ¶Debated War Debts and the French default...
...happen to know a great deal more about branch banking than the Senator from Virginia [Carter Glass] has had a chance to know. . . . The record of the State of Louisiana stands out with practically no such thing as a big bank failure." -Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long on the floor of the U. S. Senate...
...careful young banker-snob, sent to manage the firm's Palm Beach branch, makes a "success" at the expense of everything...
...Down to meet the Majestic went John Pierpont Morgan, not to see the gold but to greet his guest, Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, headmaster of Britain's famed Eton College and chaplain to King George, invited to the U. S. by the English Speaking Union's Kentucky branch. In Chicago's Probate Court it was discovered that an old will of the late Utilities Magnate Clement Studebaker Jr., which left $5,000 to his longtime chauffeur Peter Peterson, had been filed by mistake. A later will left the entire estate of some...