Word: deposition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the university of Chioago in 1907, and from 1911 to 1917 served as assistant professor and professorial lecturer on economics, banking, investments, business cycles, and bank management, at the University of Minnesota. From 1917 to 1920 he was cashier and later vice president of the State Deposit Bank of Minneapolis...
...Pitamitz, Jugoslav Minister to the U. S., made a delicate call upon Frederic Allen Whiting, secretary of the Cleveland Museum. Politely he informed Director Whiting that the diptych in the museum was stolen-goods, that it belonged to the Zagreb Cathedral. Director Whiting removed the diptych to a safe deposit vault, awaited developments...
...half mile, and of an established thickness averaging 18 ft. This in itself constitutes a reserve of several million tons, and it is in every way likely that a seam of such thickness will be found to be more extensive. It is anticipated that further drilling will prove the deposit to be truly a large and important one. The present ten holes merely constitute a start in our exploratory program...
...enforcement of Prohibition . . . most responsible for its failures." Observed Mrs. Willebrandt: "Politics and liquor are as inseparable a combination as beer and pretzels." Though she did not name the late great Boies Penrose, she cited the fact that $250,000 in cash was found in a safe deposit box on his death and insinuated that this was "dirty money" for the political manipulation of Prohibition enforcement in Pennsylvania. She recalled appeals made by politicians for such prominent convicted 'leggers as George Remus (Cincinnati) and the La Montagne brothers (Manhattan). Declared Mrs. Willebrandt: "It takes backbone to stand up under...
...Bros, claimed assets of $5,852-377, the actual value of these assets was figured at a minimum of $640,000 and a maximum of $1,830,000. There are some 3,000 depositors, none of whom will receive anything for at least three months. Six depositors said their deposits had been accepted the day before the bank closed. Laymen who think that banks are banks all alike, wondered how the State Banking Department had permitted Clarke Bros, to get into such a dreadful condition. Explanation lay in the fact that Clarke Bros., unsupervised, belonged to that class of banking...