Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justified in his action. There is the gravest doubt, however, that the law was originally intended to exclude the vacation periods from the calculation. From 1917 until this present action the interpretation of the courts has favored their inclusion. But aside from this aspect, it is more important to note the vital stupidity inherent in the presumption that the caliber of a man's medical training can be even partially classified by measuring the number of weeks which he has studied...
American Bank Note. While young bankers learned about scrip, the public suddenly learned that there was an American Bank Note Co. Shortly before midnight, Friday, President Daniel Ellis Woodhull was suddenly given the order for hundreds of millions of dollars of Clearing House certificates. His was the only concern that could do the job and do it on time. Never an advertiser, American Bank Note suddenly became the most thoroughly publicized company in the U. S. From the dribble of business it has had since the Depression, its chief plant in The Bronx, N. Y. jumped to capacity production...
...story to American Bank Note, which has been printing stock certificates, bonds, checks and bank notes since 1795. Some of its old plates bear the name of Paul Revere. Back in 1907 its presses hummed night & day-printing clearing house certificates. And though printing engraved certificates is a slow and delicate process. Bank Note's skilled em-ployes (some of them representing the fifth generation with the company) had presses rolling in short order while com-pany police guarded outside...
Dapper, amiable President Woodhull took his colossal order as calmly as he does those for paper money for China (where paper money was invented) or for a batch of foreign bonds. In 1914. when the Germans were bearing down on Paris, he was called to print bank notes for France, but the order was canceled when Paris did not fall. He went to American Bank Note 46 years ago at $7 a week as a plate toter. It is his passion for exercise, he thinks, that makes him look 15 years younger than his 64 years...
DEAR SUNNY JIM, YOUR NOTE RECEIVED...