Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centenary last week it had for several years been the biggest savings bank in the world. Deposits on Jan. 1 were $507,099,644 depositors 407,863. Two million people had banked there in 100 years, had been paid dividends of $280,000,000. The bank still maintains a branch on the Bowery, though its head office is in a Byzantine basilica on 42nd St. President Henry Bruere, who did not become a banker until he was 45, is a sociologist, has been active in housing experiments on Manhattan's lower East Side...
...statements of material facts. . . ." Among the charges was one to the effect that C. Morrison Smith & Co. had solicited one C. Henry Eilertsen of Philadelphia by telephone in April, declared that Golden Quebec shares would rise $1 within four weeks. Speculator Eilertsen, who is office superintendent of the Philadelphia branch of Jenks, Gwynne & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange, bought 500 shares at 65? a share on the assurance that he would get $1.65. In May he tried to sell, could not get even 65?, a price which he discovered was not a bid, only a "quotation...
...said to be stranger than fiction, in most historical movies facts are changed to suit the plot. "The House of Rothschild" is no exception, but the story gains by the alteration. Author Westley, a Boston Transcript editorial man, portrays the rise of the financial house, the orgination of branch banking, and the economic crises of the Napoleonic era with an eye for dramatic incidents...
...purely fictitious events, thereby destroying the historical authenticity of the production. To give a few examples: the loan to the Allies, which in the picture Nathan forced from Baring, Metternich, Talleyrand, and Ledrantz, was actually abandoned when Rothschild depressed the market on government bonds; the family's system of branch banking was not Mayer's idea, but that of his brilliant son, Nathan; instead of Nathan, it was his descendant who was knighted, during the Gladstone epoch; the romance between Wellington's aide, Fitzroy, and Nathan's daughter, Julie, and the great friendship of Wellington and Rothschild are fictitious...
Presbyterian Church in the U. S. is the name of the Southern branch which last week met at Montreat, a staid resort in the mountains of North Carolina. The 400 delegates elected as moderator U. S. Circuit Judge Samuel Hale Sibley of Marietta, Ga. Graduated from the University of Georgia where he roomed with Eugene Black (now Governor of the Federal Reserve), Judge Sibley teaches Sunday School, is an able amateur carpenter...