Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your picture." Back cracked the Marxes: "Your excellency: Our advice is that you change the name of your town. It is hurting our picture. Anyhow, what makes you think you are Mayor of Fredonia? Do you wear a black moustache, play the harp, speak with an Italian accent or chase girls like Harpo? We are certain you do not. Therefore we must be Mayor of Fredonia, not you. The old gray Mayor ain't what he used...
...Chase Bank's list of syndicate loans were found the names of Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob. Not troubling to learn more, the Press whooped that Al Smith had been caught dabbling his fingers in a stock-market pool. That night Mr. Raskob hopped down to Washington as a voluntary witness to set the Senators aright...
...persistent Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora. He had just taken a drubbing as candidate for District Attorney of New York County (see p. 16). Inquisitor Pecora said he was "relieved." Dampened not a whit he ripped into the ever-widening circle of horrid-sounding facts that his staff had delved from Chase National Bank's voluminous books...
...shares of Sinclair Consolidated from the company at $30 a share. At first, when Sinclair was selling on the New York Stock Exchange at $28 a share, Mr. Cutten was not interested but when it later rose to $32 he accepted. Harry Sinclair, Arthur Cutten, Blair & Co. and Chase Securities each got a 22]% participation in the $33,000,000 syndicate, and the balance was allotted among such friendly interests as the security affiliate of Chicago's Continental National Bank & Trust (now Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust), the bank's Chairman Arthur Reynolds, and Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews...
...garnered a fortune in utility promotion, G. T. E. swelled from a small concern with a promising film projector into an overripe holding company controlling among other things Fox Film Corp. Its decline & fall pulled down the old stock exchange houses of Pynchon & Co. and West & Co. and cost Chase Bank more millions than Mr. Wiggin cares to remember...