Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...widely admired-first as a roadbuilding, budget-balancing governor of North Carolina, most recently as an Under Secretary of the Treasury in whom businessmen had full confidence. Almost everybody could find something to like about this hearty "liberal conservative" with the homespun manner and the gilt-edged bank account. And almost everybody wanted to give him a farewell party before he left for London and his new job as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...years passed, Colonel Murray led the 160th in bloody Philippine fighting. Then, after V-J day, he became the officer in charge of the Bank of Japan's vaults. But after he had had a leave home to Palo Alto, U.S. Customs men began to take an interest in the Colonel's affairs. Smuggled diamonds had begun to appear in San Francisco's gem market...
This week, under arrest, Colonel Murray was to fly back to Japan. Gen. MacArthur's officers wanted to know whether he had bought a bucketful, or used a key-to the Bank of Japan's vaults...
...Wilfrid Eady, who succeeded Lord Keynes as traveling ambassador for the British Treasury, and Cameron Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, had got as far as India. They had come to ask how much of a ?1,250,000,000 debt could be written off, and what the terms for the rest would be. On the way home they will stop at Bagdad, where more than ?100,000,000 is due Iraq; then on to Cairo to talk about the ?450,000,000 owing to Egyptians. The two may also visit Palestine, where the debt already tops...
...that: "It was your war as well as ours." But the best argument was simply that if everybody demanded his full pound of flesh, there would not be enough to go around. Before his death, Lord Keynes had spoken his mind about those sterling debts: "If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy...