Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When more than 100 Italian immigrants in Argentina decided to go back home, the Argentine Central Bank blamed it on the fact that they were "masters of philosophy, musicians, journalists...
...entertaining (a September house guest: Harvard's President James Bryant Conant), have occasionally fed a whole varsity team. All three of the Sproul children, two sons and a daughter, are Cal grads. So is sobersided brother Allan, who is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...Thanks. The average U.S. college president lasts only five years in office. Bob Sproul is still going strong after 17, and it is not for lack of other offers ("They're getting to be a nuisance"). Sproul has declined the presidency of the Anglo California National Bank (at $50,000), the presidency of the Prune and Apricot Growers, the directorship of Selective Service, candidacy for the Republican nomination for senator and governor. His biggest temptation came last January...
...Everywhere we have gone," said Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, machine-tool manufacturer, ex-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and subcommittee chairman, "we have found that the margin of profit per dollar of sales has been very narrow." Robert A. Seidel, vice president of the W. T. Grant Co. (500 stores), testified that Grant's margin of profit in the first six months this year was only 3.1% of the consumer's dollar, compared to 6.4% in the same period last year. The committee also pinned down another fact: despite all the hullabaloo...
...Including the Mellon interests of Pittsburgh; Transamerica Corp. (Bank of America); Bache & Co.'s Frank T. Ryan; Glore, Forgan & Co.; London's Hambros Bank, Ltd. and Robert Benson & Co., Ltd. Besides Stettinius and Grew, the individuals include the wartime OSS head, Major General William J. Donovan; Willys-Overland's Chairman James D. Mooney; Atlas Corp.'s L. Boyd Hatch, and Sir William Stephenson, British industrialist...