Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what we want." What they wanted was the contents of the club's cash drawer. They got it, $196 of Republican money. Happily for the club, of which President Hoover is a member, a taxicab driver saw the robbers hastily enter another cab, grew suspicious, summoned policemen, gave chase. Captured, the bold youths said their names were Robert A. Cornell and George Evdochminor. Four days before they had arrived in town from Raleigh, N. C. They were Democrats...
...bill passed by Cuba's Parliament at his behest extending the suspension of constitutional guarantees until the expiration of his term in 1935. In effect Cuba has been under martial law since her citizens' constitutional rights were suspended Dec. 11, 1930. National City Bank of New York, Chase National Bank of New York and Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. lately joined in loaning the Machado Government $2,278,125 which it needed June 30 to meet payments on Cuba's external public works bonds and serial certificates...
Insull Lop. Into bankruptcy last week went National Public Service Corp., intermediate holding company for the "Insull" properties in the East, chief subsidiary of National Electric Power. In receivership a fortnight ago, the company sought to have its five Manhattan banks (Chase National Bank, Central Hanover Bank, Manufacturers Trust, New York Trust, Chemical Bank) reach a standstill agreement on their loans of $20,000,000. When the receivers failed to accomplish this they resigned in a huff. The action means that the bulk of the Eastern part of the great utility system has been lopped away, will probably break...
...encierro is marked by fences, behind which hundreds of tourists and visitors watched. A few, carried away by the excitement, vaulted the fence, joined the runners. Occasionally a runner fell, lay still while the bulls, their eyes on the moving mass, pounded over them. From the plaza the chase poured into another small street, then men & bulls made one mad rush for the entrance of the bull ring...
...bondholders' committee will manage the road. It was made plain last week that all bondholders must approve of the plan, that recalcitrant holders may not expect special profits such as accrued to the St. Louis Southwestern holdouts. The plan bears the endorsements of the system's bankers (Dillon, Read, Chase Harris Forbes, J. & W. Seligman, Chemical Bank & Trust) and of insurance companies (Metropolitan, Prudential) with big holdings of Frisco bonds...