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Back from his junket, Banker Mount returned to his old institution in Oakland, which was then actually two banks, Central National and Central Savings. National failed to reopen after the 1933 banking holiday, though Savings did. As president of Savings and conservator of National, Banker Mount dug in. National's depositors were paid off 100 cents on the dollar and Savings became rock-solid Central Bank of Oakland...
...year to keep the penniless city schools open for the winter. Springfield voted the levy down 2-to-1. Sure enough the schools, out of operating funds and already owing $66,000 in back salaries to their 381 teachers, three days later shut down tight, not to reopen until February...
...audience of Edward VIII that day, the Court Circular released next morning was one of the longest of his reign, and the Court staff congratulated themselves on a good job. It was next the duty of His Majesty to prorogue Parliament after its short session last week and reopen it again this week, each time with a Speech from the Throne...
Last week Superintendent Puffer, who hires Cook County's school principals, fired Principal O'Hearn. Said Noble J. Puffer: "Oh, he was just the kind of man who couldn't keep his hands off people." With school about to reopen. District No. 86 thus was without a principal, three of its five teachers...
Last spring 7,000 gloomy Amoskeag mill hands filed into the Manchester Armory, voted by a slim majority to accept $9.60 a week if the plant would reopen. Few days later the flood crest of the Merrimack River wiped out $2,500,000 worth of Amoskeag property, ruined all hopes of putting the plant in operation. Editorialized the Boston Herald last week: "If there is any satisfaction for the unemployed in knowing that they stuck to the ship to the last, these Amoskeag workers have...