Word: deposited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houses expressed himself as being in favor of a credit union plan similar to the one in effect at Fileno's and other department stores. By this system an employee is able to secure a life insurance policy at a greatly reduced premium, and also may voluntarily deposit part of his weekly savings and receive a greater amount of interest than a bank can pay on similar deposits...
...skull. Dr. Aberdeen Orlando Bowden, head of the University of Southern California's anthropology department, pronounced it that of a 70-year-old woman with a long, narrow head. Dr. Bowden stated that the skull could not possibly be an "intrusion" since it was under a 13-ft. deposit of clay, referred it definitely to glacial times, put its age tentatively at 30,000 years. "The Ballona Woman," he wrote, "gives a more conclusive proof than any yet found of very early prehistoric man in America." He found remains of a Pleistocene elephant nearby...
...White House. He refused to take any new checking accounts, offered a good pencil to any depositor with an account of $100 or less who would close it out. He wrote down $24,000 worth of Federal Reserve stock to the insulting figure of 10?. When the temporary Federal Deposit Insurance plan went into effect he became the only Federal Reserve member to hold...
Year ago when the permanent plan went into effect, Banker Nichols grudgingly put the "Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation" legend on his bank statements as required by law. Under the legend he once wrote in appalling taste: "A thousand-and-more years before our Country's famous Hyde Park tenor made his premier appearance in front of the microphone, the principles underlying sound banking existed. They will always exist-not even the melodious croonings of an embittered and frustrated President can change them...
...Nichols made what looked like his last possible grandstand play short of shutting down completely. Down to the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank he marched, drew out some $2,500,000 in cash and Government bonds, leaving only the $639,700 legally required as backing for his $5,806,463 deposits. Then he stuffed the $2,500,000 into safety deposit boxes in two Loop banks. Blustered he: "Now the politician will have to think up a new idea before he can get his hands on this money." Reason Banker Nichols can do anything he likes at his bank to make...