Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rival, First Bank Stock Corp., has none. Therefore it was not surprising news last week when First Bank Stock Corp. prepared to acquire a large livestock loaning agency. For between these two banking groups, each a classic example of group banking, there is hot, hearty competition. Each has the Twin Cities as headquarters; both were formed in 1929. Since the first of the year North-west Bancorporation has acquired eight new banks while First Bank Stock Corp. was getting six. Northwest now controls 125 banks and its system boasts of $496,000,000 in resources. First Bank Stock Corp...
...sometimes even slightly edifying. Ford Madox Ford's books are gossipy, mostly entertaining but occasionally like the vaporings of the club bore. He is a great one . . . for three dots. Notterdam and Kratch had been through thick & thin, up a deal and down hell together. They were now twin tycoons lording it in Manhattan. Kratch had many an iron in the fire; Notterdam's only one was the rod with which he ruled the great publishing house of Post, Gellatly & Jeaffreson. Cronies but always cantankerous, Notterdam and Kratch came to grips, almost to blows, over the House...
...married William Gordon McHavie and he died. She married Harlan C. Lewis and he died. She married Edward M. Meyer and he died.* After each death she collected a big lump of insurance. She was on her fifth honeymoon when she was arrested, put on trial for murder at Twin Falls, Idaho, in 1921. The State attempted to show that she was a chronic husband poisoner, did prove that she killed Meyer with a deadly fly mixture. Mrs. Southard, then 29, was sent to the State prison at Boise for ten-years-to-life...
Farewell. Flying a small pursuit plane at Fort Stotsenburg, P. I., Lieut. Marvin M. Burnside chased after a great twin-motored bomber which had just taken off, to wave "goodbye" to its pilot, his close friend Lieut. Marion Huggins. He had nearly overtaken the bomber when suddenly the backwash of its propellers hit the little plane, flung it about like a leaf, dashed it to the ground. Unaware of the occurrence, Lieut. Huggins flew on to Nichols Field, Manila, there learned that his friend was dead...
...Twin...