Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case stands," said Marshall, "there must be a definitive decision, so that in Arkansas there will be no doubt that the orders of the court cannot be interfered with ... by obstructionists and mob action . . ." Finally, just before he sat down, Thurgood Marshall's voice broke. "When a bank is robbed you don't close the bank," he cried. "You put the bank robbers in jail...
...Interest. The son of a carabiniere sergeant, Giambattista Giuffrè, now a bald, bouncy 56, began as a bank clerk and simple family man. Then he branched out. He took a mistress, buxom Rina Bianchini, setting up her cuckolded husband in the haberdashery business. Two years ago, when the husband killed himself, Giuffrè married Rina. During the years he lived in sin with her, Giuffrè served as lay administrator of several Franciscan monasteries. At World War II's end, when money began to flow in Italy again, Bank Clerk Giuffrè set out to go the banks...
Such minor worries and a mountain of large ones shadow the new college; a new science building is blueprinted, for instance, but the money is not in the bank. But President Platt speaks optimistically: "Our problem is to sustain momentum, but the idea has taken hold. The kids have been dropping back all summer long to see how the new dorm was going up, and to meet the new faculty. Cross-fertilizing the sciences and humanities is looking less like an impossibility...
Packing his bags for next month's meeting in New Delhi of governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson last week got some travel orders from President Eisenhower. Wrote Ike: "The time has now come for us to consider, together with the other members of these two agencies, how we can better equip them for the tasks of the decade ahead." Anderson's orders: support increases in member-nation contributions to the bank and the fund. In addition, he was ordered to open negotiations toward establishing a third fund subscribed...
Without Sugar. In The Bronx, N.Y., after bookkeeper Sylvia Youngerman went to a bank for a $2,000 payroll and to a restaurant for an order-to-go, a thief confronted her, snatched a sack out of her hand, fled with a container of coffee...