Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Do you know," said he, "I have not yet been officially informed of all this from Austria, but I dare say the rumor may have some foundation."
Last August Vincent Bendix, industrialist son of a Methodist minister, who starts and stops most of the world's automobiles (Bendix Drive, Mechanical Four-Wheel Brakes), gave to Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin $135,000 with which to proceed to China, draw plans of two ancient Lama temples and...
Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, famed Russian physiologist, author of Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes, refused an official celebration of his 80th birthday at Leningrad. Reason: Physiologist Pavlov is no friend of Communism. Said he, "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists." Mindful that upon his research rests the...
Large banks like to be the largest in some category. Until last week the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland had prided itself on being the largest bank between New York and Chicago. Also until last week the Peoples Wayne County Bank had prided itself on being the largest in Detroit...
It was the problem of this maelstrom that was of chief concern to the members of the American Bankers' Association, meeting in San Francisco last week. Old, approved methods of banking have had to be revised under the new systems while equally important to bankers is the new personal...