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Day notes are handwritten accounts of what Lancaster did each day, written on the pages of a daily planner pad which were then torn out. They can be as short as a description of where Lancaster went on a given day, or long enough to require several additional stapled pages. Some day notes also included memos regarding Lancaster's official activities on that day. During this time period, Lancaster worked for the National City Bank of New York, later Citibank.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include possibly abandoned Russian accounts in American banks, Lancaster being sued for conspiring to conceal German assets in the United States after World War II, settlement of Russian claims on the United States government, the Tabacalera tobacco company, Amtorg corporation, holding capital in either dollars or pesos in Cuban banks, microfilming the archives of the American Russian Institute, income tax on foreign income by American companies, and the regulation of...

Scope and Contents Information in this folder relates to loans made in Puerto Rico, much discussion of amendments to New York laws regulating foreign banks, negotiations between the United States and the USSR for a 'settlement of claims,' the possibility of imposing a mandatory retirement age on members of the Board of Directors of the National City Bank, sending bankers to Shanghai, laws regulating foreign banks in Brazil, the National City Bank pension system, negotiations with "Red China" for the release of...

Scope and Contents Contents include discussions of Argentinean banking, loans to Brazil, the purchase of New Jersey Turnpike Bonds, the 'Excess Profits Tax,' construction of a natural gas pipeline between Canada and the Pacific Northwest, liabilities for deposits seized during World War II in Japan, the rescue of NCB representatives in Shanghai, Estonian deposits at the NCB, real estate loans, a possible visit by Quakers and businessmen to the Soviet Union, honorary directorships of the NCB, a loan to Japan,...