Word: known
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...press was ready with a plethora of names. For the time being it seemed unlikely that Canada would follow Australia, insist on a native Governor. Strangest suggestion was the converted Boer, onetime South African Prime Minister General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Most likely: either the Duke of York (it is known that King George is anxious for the duke to have administrative training as a possible heir to the throne) or Queen Mary's brother the Earl of Athlone, about to return to Britain after a successful term as Governor General of South Africa...
...Senate (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week the Oustric case grew hotter & hotter. Clement Moret, governor of the Bank of France, testified that in 1926 as an official in the Ministry of Finance he had published a favorable report on one Oustric stock, an Italian artificial silk company known as Snia Viscosa, at the direct order of M. Peret, then Finance Minister. Later testimony showed that the then French Ambassador to Rome, Rene Besnard, had received large sums from Oustric after recommending this same company for listing on the Bourse. Andre Tardieu still remained unsullied personally last week. Cynics wagered that...
...This neglect has affected our families and business in the past, as it is a well-known fact that no family of samisen manufacturers lasts more than three generations. At present the largest dealer in Tokyo has been in existence for more than three generations but the head of the family has always been an adopted child...
...direction finder or "homing device" invented by Radioman Geodfrey G. Kruesi of Western Air Express is supplementary to the ordinary aircraft radio. If the pilot cannot pick up the signals of the beacon, he simply tunes in on the known wavelength of any broadcasting station in the region. A dial on his instrument board then shows him his direction of flight in relation to the position of the broadcasting station. Last week Inventor Kruesi took his invention to Asheville, N. C, there to confer with his ailing department chief Herbert Hoover Jr. Later he was to show it to Army...
...branches closed, this notice on its doors: "The business and property of the Bankers Trust Co. of Philadelphia is in the possession of Peter G. Cameron, Secretary of Banking of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." The bank had $55,000,000 in assets on Sept. 24, was known in Philadelphia as "the Greenfield bank," owing to its identification with Albert Monroe Greenfield, real estate operator. The institution's depositors numbered 135,000. their funds totaled $45,000,000. President of the bank was Samuel H. Barker, son of the late Wharton Barker, presidential candidate on the Middle-of-the-Road...