Word: loops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald & Examiner pictured Banker Dawes as having to begin his career anew, returning to the day in 1902 when as an able young man of 37 he organized Central Trust Co. of Illinois. Under his guidance it grew into the Loop's third largest bank. The chief complaint of Banker Dawes, 67 last fortnight, is that he can no longer obtain underslung hubble-bubble pipes. Though the institution he built may be razed, Banker Dawes could probably take with him at least $50,000,000 of old Central Republic deposits if he decided to found a new bank...
...Best known arty rendezvous is the Dill Pickle Club where bushy-haired Dr. Ben L. Reitman. onetime lover of Emma Goldman, author of The Second Oldest Profession, lectures nightly on sex. The favorite artists' restaurants are the Question Mark, the K-9 Club. Schlogel's in the Loop, Ballantine's on Rush Street and the Round Table in the basement of a butcher shop on Chicago Avenue. Since the great days when Poet Vachel Lindsay. Novelist Theodore Dreiser. Dramatist Ben Hecht, et al. worked in Chicago, Chicago's Bohemia has declined...
...lend money to liquidating banks. Thus smart Banker Dawes & advisers had found a polite formula that allowed the bank the option of buttressing its capital and staying in business or giving depositors the opportunity to withdraw their funds when, as if they saw fit, without undue haste, while other Loop banks remained unaffected by the perturbations of quick liquidation. Meanwhile Central Republic was reported to be making no new loans. The Loop was calm...
Still fresh and cheerful last week in the Loop was news issued a few days before from Northern Trust Co., long a model of conservatism among the five large Loop institutions. Northern Trust announced payment of its regular quarterly dividend of $4.50, thus maintaining its $18 annual rate (raised two years ago from $12). It was the only Loop bank failing to cut its dividend rate...
...Lambert Bere and John Camphouse, officials of the bank, who identified McGeoghegan at his first trial, asked me to do it," replied Attorney Butler. "They have been under guard in a Loop hotel since April 29 and their families and the bank need them...