Word: deposition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week made itself a world stock market by providing for deals in foreign snares-under restrictions. Those restrictions provide: 1) The foreign corporation wanting its shares listed in Manhattan must be "well known" and must have a reliable New York agent or correspondent. 2) Foreign shares must be deposited and against them issued certificates of deposit. 3) Such certificates will be the actual documents sold on the exchange...
...most recent and one of the most prized gift is a calfskin safe deposit box, once the property of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts, and containing various legal papers. Among the contents are a bank bill portrait of Chief Justice Shaw and a number of autographed letters of the great justice, including one to Governor Edward Everett, written in 1839, and indorsing John Knapp for election to a state office...
...Spain's Floating Debt was last year canceled by her able Minister of Finance ... so that having already bought up and liquidated her Exterior Debt, and possessing the third largest gold deposit in Europe, her financial situation is one of the strongest in the world...
...secure them had been difficult because Lord Talbot had viewed the old let ters as a peculiarly private account of his great-great-grandfather's charms and indiscretions rather than as an important literary discovery. Successful where other collectors had failed, Colonel Isham took the suitcase to the safe-deposit vaults of the Guaranty Trust Co. where, in an ivory twilight that smelled of oil and steel, he showed all his treasure to hungry newsgatherers...
...significant deposit items were recorded last week by the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The deposits were to the credit of the Treasurer of the U. S.: from the Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co., $11,092,264.82; from the Pan American Petroleum Co., $1,920,886.94? Total...