Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bingham has a wonderful time. For the first time since the Holy Cross game he could contemplate the forty dollars in the bank represented by a pair of upright, non-demolished goal posts. Then too, he was able to gleefully anticipate the long green from additional Yale game applications that Saturday's victory will surely bring...
...week's end, only some old ideas had emerged from the closed doors. One set of ideas (Nourse's) called for allocation of scarce commodities, such as steel and grain; curbs on installment buying; curbs on speculation in the commodity exchanges; tightening of bank credit. Such fiscal reforms might help a little but they certainly had no political zing. The only other idea was the reimposition of rationing and price control, which Harry Truman recently described as manifestations of a police state. But in their extremity that was exactly what Democratic politicos were suggesting. The tactic was politically...
Taxes should be cut promptly. Incentive capital should be encouraged by permitting everyone to keep at least 50% of his income. At the same time, a 1½% service charge should be levied on big fortunes "embalmed in bank deposits" or in tax-exempt bonds...
Simonsen was heard with respect. He is no inexperienced theorist, but a self-made man, a pretty rare article in Brazil. Child of a British-born Santos bank manager and a Brazilian-Scottish mother, he started out at 21 as a civil engineer on the old Southern Brazil Railway. At 58 he is one of the wealthiest men in the country. He has been president or director of a dozen companies, now heads Ceramica São Caetano, the largest ceramic (tile, pipe) plant in South America, which employs 1,600 workers...
...bejeweled countesses and duchesses in the lobby recoiled as a barefoot, plaid-shirted pilgrim from the Left Bank stalked past them. Communist Poet Louis Aragon stood near Catholic Poet Paul Claudel, and close by was Protestant Novelist André Gide. The opening night that attracted such a variegated audience to the Théatre Marigny promised to be the most exciting of the Paris theater season. And the promise was kept...