Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will miss his rare, free evenings at home with Mrs. Douglas and daughter Sharman (a crashing belle of London society). They flew back to the U.S. for Christmas in New York with son Peter, down from Yale, and New Year's in Arizona with son James, a Tucson bank clerk...
Paul Finney '50 took charge of the depleted bank account at the same time. J. Rosson Overcash '49 and William J. Reinhardt '47 will continue as drill-master and drum-major respectively for the coming year...
...Defense Ministry last week drew 8,000,000 baht (about $800,000) from the National Bank of Siam. In orderly Western fashion, the Ministry accounted for the expenditure: "to pay coup expenses." Tango Interrupted. The coup itself had been orderly (one of the plotters described it as "very straightforward and very kind-hearted") but a little hard for Westerners to understand. The first point to get straight is that all Siamese politics turns around the rivalry between royalist Field Marshal Phibun (pronounced "fee bun") Songgram and republican Pridi Banomyong, who both went to school in France in the 1920s...
There was one item of good news with the bad. Canada, which went through World War II without a foreign loan, will get a $300 million loan from the U.S. The Export-Import Bank will furnish it, if private financing is impracticable. But another $300 million must come from the savings in consumers' goods from the U.S. Devaluation of the Canadian dollar-often rumored-was "considered and rejected," said Abbott...
Last week thousands crowded the museum for a look. They were not allowed to see all the treasures at once. Skittish Director Colt had only 30 of the 600 on show. Until the museum gets a new, burglarproof wing, the rest will stay hidden in vaults at the bank...