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Example sentences for "savings banks"

  • Savings banks seek to keep invested as large a part as possible of their assets, keeping only in ready cash enough to meet a possible temporary excess of withdrawals over deposits.

  • Receiving time deposits is the one essential function of savings banks, but this function is increasingly performed by other banks[5].

  • In 1916, the centenary of the beginning of savings banks in this country, a nation-wide propaganda was undertaken by the American Bankers' Association for the encouragement of savings.

  • Now every laborer there receives his wages, and, for want of savings banks, the greater part of such wages is carried in the pocket or hoarded until required for use.

  • Every necessary letter of inquiry respecting deposits in savings banks, and their replies are carried by the railways, and travel free of postage.

  • The system is in its infancy as yet, but the postal transmissions which it will involve, even at its greatest, will never be of the same extent as those connected with the Post Office Savings Banks.

  • But as it is possible that you may not have seen that little book, I will here tell you enough about these things to make you see the reasons for the Boroughmongers using this trick of Savings Banks.

  • But, Jack, all the tricks of these deceivers and cheaters, if the trickery of them all were put together, would fall far short of the trick now playing off under the name of Savings Banks.

  • Servants withdrew their hoards from the savings banks.

  • Before the existence of savings banks, the poor had no safe place of deposit, where they could receive interest, and whence they could withdraw their deposits at pleasure.

  • In Madras, savings banks could be opened by the Director-General, provided they were not within five miles of a head-quarter station.

  • Even in a great State like New York we find twenty-eight counties with no savings banks.

  • Where there is no statute or decision of the highest court fixing the class of securities in which a trustee may invest, he can safely follow the rule prescribed for the investment of the funds of savings banks.

  • In saying so much, I do not forget the only book which has hitherto emanated from the British press on Savings Banks.

  • Some banks, such as savings banks, do not permit depositors to draw checks against their deposits.

  • Savings banks ordinarily do not permit depositors to draw checks against their accounts.

  • Savings banks ordinarily do not permit their customers to use checks, but require them to present their pass books when drawing money.

  • These may be indefinitely extended through voluntary association and contributory schemes, or through the agency of savings banks, as under the recent Massachusetts plan.

  • Savings banks in the eastern states pay from three to four per cent.

  • Savings banks keep a reserve, made up of earnings in excess of interest and all expenses.

  • Savings banks originated in Switzerland, and were instituted mainly for the benefit of the poor.


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