Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal Reserve Bank, vigorous, well-traveled, winner of several Pulitzer awards for his editorials, a Republican who traveled on the Willkie train...
Both of the Case brothers went to Hotchkiss and Princeton; both are ex-Watt Streeters (their father, Banker J. Herbert Case, was once chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York); both turned educators in their thirties...
Butcher shops felt the full weight of buyers' disdain. Prices fell rapidly in most cities. When the price of a pair of pajamas was quoted at $5.75, a San Antonio bank clerk snapped: "I'll keep on sleeping in old shirts instead." Boston's R. H. White department store, which for years could not keep any bedroom furniture on its floor, got a carload at the beginning of the week, still had almost all of it at week...
...real power in the Federal Reserve was still its astute, millionaire chairman, Marriner Stoddard Eccles. He showed this by quickly slapping down Jake Vardaman three days after he had brought his good cheer to the Morris Planners. At a New England bank management conference in Boston, Eccles said bluntly: "It can hardly be contended, with reason, that the credit gates should be opened now," though single payment loans, charge accounts, soft goods and minor durable goods might soon be freed from restrictions. But major durable goods, accounting for "the great dollar bulk of consumer credit," said Chairman Eccles, would remain...
...volunteer service, whose merit attracted many during the war years, will reach out again for aid on November 11 and 12 when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Phillips Brooks House jointly conduct a blood bank drive. Anyone alive to events during the recent conflict, whether in or out of service, appreciates the value of the conveniently located blood bank, such is familiar with the rudiments of blood giving. Keeping abreast with the Armed Forces and many other states, Massachusetts is building up a blood reservoir which is on tap without cost to any resident of the State including those...