Word: chases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guards, intermediaries. These must be tough, resourceful, utterly unscrupulous if a professional job is to be done. Automobiles are needed, as well as a thorough knowledge of police operations and an acquaintance with back roads. Old storage plants make excellent hideaways, of which several are often necessary if the chase becomes hot. Such an organization can be formidable. The U. S. President himself set two Secret Service agents on guard over his grand-children-"Sistie" & "Buzzie" Dall and Sara Roosevelt-at Little Boars Head and Rye Beach, N. H. when an unparalleled "wave" of abductions, three major kidnappings and half...
Biggest Bank In the reign of Charles Edwin Mitchell the title of "world's largest bank" passed from London to Manhattan and National City Bank. When Chase National Bank swallowed Equitable Trust three years ago, the title passed from Wall Street to Pine Street. Last week it returned to London. Rising pound and slumping dollar had placed not one but three British banks ahead of the biggest bank...
First of Britain's great banks to report June 30 condition was Barclays. Its total resources of $1,971,900,000 topped Chase by $250,000,000. Chase would have lost its title before this had it not had the advantage of a depreciated pound between 1931 and last April, for Chase resources in the last three years have shrunk steadily from a high of $2,600,000,000 to $1,700,000,000. In Britain, where branch banking is almost the only banking, the "Big Five"- Midland, Lloyds, Barclays, National Provincial, Westminster-control 80% of the business...
Besides using Edward Stettinius as liaison man with the tycoons, and Attorney General Cummings as a bear to chase industries from behind, General Johnson engaged Charles F. Horner of Kansas City to work up enthusiasm for co-operation with the Recovery Administration. During the War Mr. Horner helped organize the "Four-Minute" men for selling Liberty Bonds. Like his old, his new job is to select a Recovery Act symbol for display in store windows and on factory chimneys, to make propaganda for public support...
...been selling their bills at a cut rate of $15 per $100. The sleuths crept toward a loft building, dashed up stairs, smashed down a door to find four counterfeiters with their pockets stuffed with their own product. They also found an offset press, several thousand counterfeit $5 Chase National Bank notes, steel and copper plates for $5 notes. The Press was told that the ring had circulated more than a million $1 bills in the last six months...