Word: looping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banks last October with deposits of $10,000,000, loans of $13,000,000 and only $321,832 on hand in cash. By the end of the week the city was far more bank-conscious. During the preceding three days, 22 outlying banks had closed their doors. Into the Loop, stronghold of Chicago finance, marched a small army of worried depositors, some of them foreigners, most of them poor, practically all of them owners of small savings accounts. They seemed to select no particular bank for their activities. For two days withdrawals were heavy. The largest Loop houses, Continental Illinois...
...Monday the Loop was once more quiet. But behind closed doors there was great todo. Central figure in a long bankers' conference was Charles Gates Dawes, lately resigned from Reconstruction Finance Corp.'s presidency to assume the chairmanship of his Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. Since his return to Chicago during the Republican Convention, speculation had run high as to why he had resigned from R. F. C. at what seemed like the peak of the corporation's activities...
...found nothing important happening. Wrote he: "Hello everybody! Chicago looks like it might be going to a picnic. And Chicago ought to be picnic enough for anybody. Why, you can take a taxi and in a few minutes you're out of the heat and crowds of the Loop. Out passing green trees, beautiful parks, smooth drives? right out to the Edgewater Beach Hotel...
...Maryland kept a lone vigil with a pair of stenographers in a suite at the Congress, ridiculously hopeful of a boon which the party leaders downstairs on the mezzanine floor had not the slightest intention of bestowing upon him. Marshall Field & Co. displayed a collection of small elephants. Loop district street lights were decorated with the party symbol on bunting. But throughout the length & breadth of the city there was not to be found a single Republican badge, button, sign or slogan urging the selection of anyone for office. Colyumnist Heywood Broun reported: "Herbert Clark Hoover is the forgotten...
Late for the opening of Flo Ziegfeld's revival of Show Boat, Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch was making for his seat when the hanger-loop on his overcoat snagged on the button of the usher's uniform. Usher and Financier struggled for a long moment in the darkness. Finally the usher ripped the button...