Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the time the President was sticking grimly to his office, charging like a bulldozer into the bank of administrative odds & ends which still barred the way to Missouri...
...crops that Congress planted in the muck were both good & bad. The best crops were in the field of foreign affairs. The Congress supported Bretton Woods and the World Bank, U.N. and UNRRA, for whose charitable work it appropriated $2.7 billion. In a flurry of legislation last week before adjournment Congress accepted (with reservations) the jurisdiction of the World Court in international disputes. After seven months' wrangling, it also approved the British loan...
...banker and a more learned man. He got his reward in 1940 when Jesse Jones called him to Washington to become executive vice president of the Defense Plant Corp. He left after a row with Jones, went back to St. Louis and the vice presidency of the First National Bank. Then one day his friend Harry Truman telephoned him that Franklin Roosevelt had just died. "John," said a shaky Harry Truman, "you'll have to come up here right...
...Kennedy-who has been working half-heartedly on a book-finally felt free to look for a new job. After his return to the U.S., he was kept on the A.P. payroll-but given no work to do. Then, in November, he suddenly found $4,982.80 in his bank account. The A.P. had deposited the money, apparently as severance pay. No one has yet told him that he is no longer an A.P. employe...
...guest expert on a radio quiz program (so that Smith can have some fun with Information Please); 2) play host at a literary cocktail party (with much kidding of a large lady who is presumably Elsa Maxwell); 3) pose for a TIME cover (still on the unused "bank...