Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Depositors in Bankers Trust Co. of Philadelphia, last week found the bank and its 21 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...
...travel diary of Hubert R. Knickerbocker, first correspondent to explore Red Russia thoroughly, came last week to the end of its 24 daily instalments in Manhattan's Evening Post, Philadelphia's Public Ledger...
...Prisoner Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." Far to the east are the smoke and glare of the great new Bethlehem Steel mills. North of Baltimore planes detour to give a wide berth to the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Thence: Havre de Grace racetrack; Philadelphia's desolate Sesquicentennial Exposition site; Hog Island...
...chest cities this year include: Alliance, Ohio; Johnstown, Pa.; Springfield, Mo.; Clinton, Iowa; Hazelton, Pa.; Stamford, Conn.; New Philadelphia, Ohio. And doughty Blacksburg, Va., with a population of less than 2,000 and the smallest of all chests. They hoped to raise $800 for a chest, actually gathered...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis fortified Philadelphia's chest with...