Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sole lead emerged from the testimony of two other Leverett men, who remained in Cambridge over the holidays. Last Friday the pair, who wish their names withheld, claimed they heard a banging noise on the bank of mailboxes outside their door...
...reach the zenith of his motion picture career without battles. He distrusted directors. He had no faith in writers (although he occasionally tried to steal their lines) and wanted to do his own stories. He finally had his way. Result: an impressive string of successes-David Copper field, Poppy, Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee...
Died. Baron Robert de Rothschild, 66, who, with his cousin Baron Edouard de Rothschild, headed the Rothschild bank in Paris before the Nazi occupation; of pneumonia; in Lausanne, Switzerland. A lifelong racing enthusiast, he owned one of the most famous stables in prewar France, a private track, a polo field (where he played under the name M. Errer). Another property: Chateau Lafite-Roths-child, producer of one of the world's best red wines...
...week's end, the Bank's prestige had fallen so low that its directors supposedly called on Harry Truman to draft a man for the president's job. Their latest choice: Allan Sproul, 50, who heads the Federal Reserve Bank of New York but is not the kind of "name" the bank needed. While Sproul (rhymes with owl) was mulling over the offer, another name was dropped in the hat: Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
Retreat to Morocco. Young Barea got a job as one of 60 unsalaried "apprentices" in a great foreign bank, the Credit Etranger (250,000,000 francs capital). At the end of the year he was one of three apprentices taken on as paid employes. The rest were fired and new boys who would work for nothing took their places. The bank's business, he soon decided, was to control or ruin other businesses. After a few years he exchanged one hopelessness for another and took service in the army in Morocco, building a road into the hostile territory...