Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diggers' Mite. In Clayton, Okla., burglars laboriously tunneled into the Clayton State Bank's vault, made off with several sacks of money. Contents: 33,300 pennies...
...next clause in the Bill added the final touch in the legislation story of Alice in Bankerland. By this provision all credit institutions (except the Bank of Canada, trust and insurance and mortgage companies) would have to get a provincial license to do business in the province. That did it. The court ruled: provinces cannot infringe on control of banking...
There was also a homesickness for Milhaud in Paris, where his music is being widely played. Said the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, once of Paris' Left Bank, during a 1945 trip to Europe: "All musical France hopes [for] the return of its master. . . . There is a vacancy in the center of the stage." Milhaud, so crippled that he walks painfully with two canes, finds the California climate healthier than Paris, but says "I need to go back ... in Europe there are more possibilities...
...Takers. But the other Bretton Woods twin, the World Bank, was not growing up to be such a credit to its founders. It was beginning to be regarded as almost a wayward child. There was still no taker for the $30,000-a-year job (tax free) which President Eugene Meyer resigned. And the Bank itself, with an assist from Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, bungled the announcement of another resignation. As a matter of courtesy, Vice President Harold D. Smith thought he ought to hand in his resignation, let the new president keep him or name a new vice...
...Account. In Calgary, Alberta, steam-shovel operator Harry Gallelli, excavating a basement, uncovered a cache of several hundred U.S. silver dollars and 50^ pieces, rushed happily to a bank, learned they were all counterfeit...