Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite threats of reprisal, Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker had confirmed the death sentence of Jewish Terrorist Dov Gruner. As promised, the terrorists struck. H. A. I. Collins, a director of a Palestine bank, was entertaining a young Jewish woman at tea when a knock summoned him to the door. Outside stood a beautiful Jewess with four armed Yemenite Jews. They threw Collins to the floor, slapped a chloroform-soaked rag against his face. The beautiful Jewess screamed, "Take him to the cemetery." The four men crammed him into a gunny sack, fled...
Died. Harold Dewey (for the Admiral) Smith, 48, quietly efficient vice president and acting head of the World Bank, longtime (seven years) Director of the U.S. Budget, chief inquisitor for the late President Roosevelt into the management and finances of federal bureaus ; of a heart ailment ; on his Culpeper, Va. farm...
...could take care of him. Said he: ''He's a good friend of mine, but in this business he's a mere child." As for Morgan, Stanley, which Bob Young persists in calling the Morgan crowd, although they have no direct connection with the bank, he snorted:'"If they start another fight they ought to have their heads examined. If I can't get along with these fellows this time, I'll make a twentieth-rate bank out of the Morgan bank...
...because it was "not in the public interest" for the Central to own a competing road. Bob Young expects to convince the ICC that it is now in the public interest for the C. & O. to control the Central. (Until he does, the ICC has ruled that the Chase Bank will vote his Central stock.) When and if he does get control, he plans to mesh the Central into his other railroads. Next step in Young's master plan is to gain control of the bankrupt Missouri Pacific railroad, now fat with war profits. By virtue of the stock...
...feeling that all women . . . longed to be the heroines of one of those romantic episodes which were common incidents in the lives of the medieval troubadours. It was only a great many years later and at cost of a terrific wear and tear upon my emotions and upon my bank account that I learned that the troubadour business had indeed gone out with Guiraut Riquier (who died in the year...