Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Girl copywriters had better bank the price of admission, save up plane fare, and go see Angkor...
First, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin complained to Arkansas Senator John McClellan's Senate Investigations Subcommittee that Saxon withheld confidential evidence of irregularities at the San Francisco National Bank, thus misleading the Federal Reserve into lending the bank $9,260,000 when it was about to fail. Two of Saxon's own aides not only confirmed this lack of communication but added that Saxon waited eight months to tell the Justice Department about indications that the bank's president was accepting kickbacks for approving loans...
Then the deposed president of the San Francisco bank, Don C. Silverthorne, whose "gross dishonesty" Saxon had blamed for its collapse, turned up at the hearings and told newsmen in a corridor confrontation that he gave "booze, cigars and virgin-wool shirts" to both Saxon and his West Coast regional director, Arnold E. Larsen. "I don't give liquor by the bottle," smiled Silverthorne. "I give it by the case...
...idealism explains the fact that he is about to withdraw his account from the Chase Manhattan Bank, on the basis of recent protests against the Bank's connection with business activity and apartheid in South Africa. "It's convenient to bank there, but wrong...
Leaders of the New York demonstration met with Lawrence Marshall, vice-chairman of the bank, who gave the stock response of the day: we feel no moral compulsion to withdraw our in vestments...