Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and Chemical Bank? Why did the Justice Department close its investigation into the Calhoun overdrafts the day before Lance was nominated as OMB director? Was it really common practice, as stated by Jody Powell, for small-town bankers to overdraw their accounts? And why was only a cursory mention made of the comptroller's investigation during Lance's confirmation hearings? Could internal memos at Manufacturers Hanover Trust be so specific about a 20% compensating balance between NBG's correspondent account and Lance's personal loan of $2.6 million without...
...tremendous hit, she went on to the dramatic roles she preferred, including that of Berenice Sadie Brown, the compassionate and eloquent cook in both stage and screen versions of The Member of the Wedding. In 1951 she published His Eye Is on the Sparrow, a frank, resentful, sordid account of her life and religiosity ("The Catholic religion gives you a beautiful image to cuddle"). Rededicating herself to Christ, she sang regularly for Evangelist Billy Graham's crusades during the '60s. Although Waters made millions during her career, she was a soft touch and died poor. Said she: "Where...
...garage; his house in Dayton has the same number of rooms but is bigger, newer and has a two-car garage. Phillips also had to sweat out his application for a mortgage loan. The problem is that he is burdened with alimony payments; taking them into account, savings and loan associations would insist that Phillips and his second wife, Marilyn, show a combined income of $39,000 to qualify for a $50,000 mortgage. They can do so only if Marilyn, who is an executive secretary in Dayton, lands a similar job in Jersey and earns $12,000 a year...
...going to great lengths to take it all with you. Another can be glimpsed in the strange fact that the vanner drives long distances to destinations at which the main activity is a celebration of the vehicles that have made the journey. Such intriguing realities must be taken into account by any respectable theory of the nomading crowd. And they do nag up some interesting possibilities...
...account, Decca made an odd sort of Communist. She drummed up attendance to party rallies with flame-colored flyers that read: CHICKEN DINNERS LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE. FREE-FLOWING LIQUOR. 20 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 20. Whether investigating police brutality in Oakland in the '40s or leading a White Women's Delegation to Mississippi to appeal the case of convicted Rapist Willie McGee in 1951, Mitford the Marxist seemed to operate with a touch of what she called "high jinks." Missions might be missions, but why could they not also be "a thrilling adventure," or at least "a welcome...