Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman could never escape for long. Earlier in the week to a group of visiting state bank commissioners, he had implicitly confessed that as President he does not spend all his time laughing. The White House, said the President with a wry grin, is the finest jail in the world...
...start work on one of the cooperative farm colonies organized by the Government in the fertile interior to grow corn, potatoes, beans, rice, coffee, tobacco. An Italian with a shy little wife and black-eyed little girl was to go to a privately owned hacienda in Carabobo. Another, a bank clerk in Italy, had a job as a hotel waiter. Said he: "You have to start somewhere...
...artist searching for a mysterious "dying look"; the elfin, almost intangible bird fancier who is overjoyed when he finds a "caged" human; and the plump, insidious informer in a flowered dress who slyly traps the unsuspecting rebels these and the others present a pageant that stands up with Bank's best. Hollywood should watch out lest some wayward Goalie breath blow down its neck and whisper that perhaps it, too, is not long for this world. D.P.S...
Half a Loaf. In Honolulu, an aspiring safecracker broke into the Branfleet Sportswear Store, worked long & hard over the safe, finally gave up, turned his attention to a piggy bank, departed with two bits...
Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong had packed the anniversary issue of his grave, grey Foreign Affairs with a roster of big names: Henry L. Stimson, Sumner Welles, Anthony Eden, the Earl of Halifax, Historian Arnold Toynbee, World Bank President John J. McCloy...