It's Your FuneralFinancial Publishing Company, 1924 - 181 pages |
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Page 168 - Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta. Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas and San Francisco.
Page 168 - An Act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes.
Page 168 - ... to purchase and hold, for the purpose of becoming a member of a Federal Reserve Bank, so much of the capital stock thereof as will qualify it for membership in such reserve bank, pursuant to an act of Congress, approved December 23, 1913, entitled the 'Federal Reserve Act...
Page 141 - Is presence. That means the appearance of a gentleman, the manners of a gentleman, and a bearing that will Induce people to put their trust in him. That is a peculiar quality demanded in this work that many fields of labor would not require at all. We look for it always. Add to these things ambition, and you get a pretty fine type of young man, and a type we find it tard to get.
Page 142 - Forbear," interrupted the maiden, with a magnanimous gesture of the hand that was not engaged in bestowing a gift of fruit. " There is a time to scatter flowers and a time to prepare the soil. To-morrow a further trial awaits you, for which we must conspire.
Page 142 - Even a silver trumpet may not prevail above a score of brazen horns," confessed the story-teller doubtfully.
Page 17 - ... sponsored by dealers in bonds. In volume and number the transactions on the exchange are only a mere fraction of those in direct merchandising. Of this $1,500,000,000 of bonds, one-third is absorbed by insurance companies, savings banks, trust companies and other banks (in approximately equal amounts) and the remaining twothirds by corporations (for reserve, etc.) and by private investors in this country and abroad.