Word: stately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clip-clap, clip-clap through the tidy Hague, good motherly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands clattered off last week in her State Coach to open Parliament. With her rode buxom, schoolgirlish Crown Princess Juliana and the Queen's fat but studiously self-effacing Prince Consort-Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. A smart troop of cavalry gave dash to the corpulent Royal turnout. Loyal crowds bellowed vociferously not "God Save the Queen!" but that grand old Dutch cheer, "Hold the Sea! HOLD...
...skepticism of League statesmen was understandable. Doubtless they had reminded Dr. Streeruwitz of last month's bloody clashes between Austria's two irregular armies, the reactionary Heimwehr and the socialist Schutzbund, both bands of political zealots eager to seize the state by a coup d'etat (TIME, Aug. 19 et seq.). Last week after observing a brief truce, Heimwehr and Schutzbund leaders were again roaring threats at each other...
...Rand" in upper New York state stands for "Banking" as much as does "Giannini" in California. Just dedicated is the Rand Building, tallest of Buffalo skyscrapers, a memorial from Banker Rand to his father, George Franklin Rand Sr.,? remembered as an able banker and a mainspring of Buffalo finance...
Besides the immediate acquisition of 16 banks in the state of New York,* the Ma rine Midland Corp.'s sponsors will make a public offering of stock to finance a $25,000,000 subsidiary bank to be known as the Marine Trust Co. of the City of New York and located in the financial district. While no announcement was made of how much stock would be sold to the public, trading in Marine Midland commenced on the New York Produce Exchange, the stock selling at more than 20 points over the rumored offering price of $60 per share...
...Banks to be immediately acquired are: The Marine Trust Co. of Buffalo; Union Trust Co. of Rochester; Manufacturers National Bank of Troy; Cortlant Trust Co., Cortlant; Lackawanna National Bank, Lackawanna; Niagara Falls Trust Co., Niagara Falls; Niagara County National Bank and Trust Co., Lockport; State Trust Co., North Tonawanda; Workers Trust Co., Johnson City; The Bank of East Aurora, East Aurora; Bank of La Salle, Niagara Falls; First Trust Co., Tonawanda; Peoples Trust Co., Binghamton; Union Trust Co., Jamestown; Orleans County Trust Co., Albion; Bank of Snyder, Snyder...