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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They were dismissed by the Bank's new Governor Emile Labeyrie, an appointee of Socialist Blum, with these words: "Messieurs, you date back to the Consulate and to the Empire. You are so completely identified with the Bank as conceived by its founders, that, since the day has come to rejuvenate this old house, it appears impossible to invite you to participate in this restoration." Inexpressibly shocking to French business was the prompt appointment by the Government to the new board of Regents of goateed, rabble-rousing Labor Leader Leon Jouhaux, who last week flew to Spain...
...Banking Act but cannot similarly invade most Eastern States where laws forbid State-wide branch banking. To unit (one-bank) bankers who violently oppose him as a financial monopolist, Banker Giannini says: "Under a unified banking system it will be possible to have the equivalent of an up-to-date central clearing house for the nation . . . and the status of the nation's banking structure will be clear at all times." Last month, announcing that Bank of America N. T. & S. A. deposits had, in the year ending June 30, jumped $250,000,000 to a total...
...Imru was said to have raised an army of 60,000, to have spurred Ethiopian patriotism with tidings that the Italians had executed Ethiopian Coptic Bishop Petros. Just as "Gore, Western Ethiopia," was becoming an accepted date line, however, it was discovered to be a fake. Cunning correspondents in Egypt had rightly guessed that U. S. editors would prefer dispatches from the seat of the "Gore Government" to the mess of rumors about it which today is all they can genuinely...
...Sherman spread darkly across 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, 58 oilmen and three oil trade journals. Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act they were all criminally indicted by a Federal grand jury for having "combined and conspired, beginning in February 1935, and continuing to date, to raise and fix prices of gasoline sold in interstate commerce, mainly in ten States of the Middle West...
Born in Hamburg, Iowa, at some undisclosed date before 1900, Lilie Bouton traveled to Reno and then to San Francisco, attended the Van Ness Seminary on Nob Hill, soon broke away from her parents' domination and got a part in a San Francisco theatrical troupe. She traveled East with the company, left it because of the manager's unwelcome attentions, was stranded in New York until she got a part in a road show. She was becoming well-known as an actress, had been engaged to Arthur Byron, refused the proposals of several eminent theatrical figures, when...