Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's banks now have some $3,000,000,000 in reserves over & above what they need to support their present business. That excess could support a credit expansion of at least $30,000,000,000. It is the threat of such credit inflation that gives bankers like Chase National's Chairman Winthrop Aldrich the jitters every time they think about it. And, through the mysteries of central banking, excess reserves are about to take another rise as a result of the payment of the Bonus, the Reserve Board estimating that the total will be about...
...Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., which went under in 1933 as a result of the finagling of Joseph Wright Harriman (TIME, May 4). According to the Comptroller, the Clearing House banks had agreed the previous year to keep Harriman National afloat. Eleven Clearing House members, including such institutions as Chase National, National City and Irving Trust, settled out of court for some $3,600,000. But the court held last week that the other nine members were quite within their rights in refusing to pay a penny. Read the decision...
...tiny Gambier, Ohio was built by one of the many Eastern clergymen who swarmed into the Western territories after the War of 1812. Since then Kenyon has passed two stiff tests. First was to face down the animosity of its Ohio neighbors who, learning that Founder-Bishop Philander Chase had raised his first $30,000 from the British nobility, firmly believed that Kenyon was a British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase...
Naturally, some of our more particular citizens are going to cause you to "chase a jack rabbit" for some of the more obvious errors such as misspelling the name of Justice Robert Lee Bobbitt; placing Lubbock (the Hub of the Plains) below the caprock on the map and failing to show, on the map, that Texas Technological College (third in enrollment in Texas) is at Lubbock; failing to mention El Paso's "garden valley...
...small Station WHN. Last year, after Roxy had failed on a spectacular scale to make a go of Radio City's gigantic Music Hall, Major Bowes's hour had become Radio's No. 1 commercial broadcast, worth $7,500 a week to Standard Brands to advertise Chase & Sanborn's Coffee over 60 National Broadcasting Co. stations. Last week, when it was announced that beginning in September a new sponsor, Walter P. Chrysler, would pay him a reputed $15,000 a week for program rights alone, Major Bowes graduated clear out of show business...