Business & Finance: City Trust Crash

Every night last week groups of workingmen, mostly Italians, stood at the corner of 109th street and Second avenue, Manhattan, gazing across the street at the windows of the City Trust Co. They wondered what, if anything, their bankbooks might be worth. On the windows were posted notices that the state banking department had taken possession of the bank. Back of the closed doors bank examiners checked books and investments and balances. Perhaps the bank was "broke."

Some of the laborers pointed to gold-lettered window announcements which proclaimed that City Trust Co. was...

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