Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right Bank. But at the same time, Molotov demanded ten billion dollars' worth of reparations (to be taken, contrary to previous agreement, partly out of current German production) and declared that an actual peace treaty should not be granted until the Germans had established a satisfactorily democratic government. Byrnes countered that Germany would have to know the kind of peace she would be up against before she could develop such a government. He suggested, in effect, that the economic reconstruction and the centralized government called for in Molotov's plan be started immediately by 1) lifting of zonal...
...wondered why Molotov would not let them have an advance on the wonderful future he had promised. Said one Berlin office worker: "If Molotov is really interested in Germany, I don't understand his refusal to drop zonal frontiers." But most of the press on the right (German) bank of the Rhine completely ignored this purposeful Molotov paradox and played up Russia as Germany's best friend. Typical sample: the Liberal Democratic Party's Der Morgen headlined: "What Molotov demands for Germany" as contrasted with what the Western powers "demand from Germany." Said a German official...
...Left Bank. On the left bank of the Rhine, dismay and confusion marched in Communism's ranks. Thorez & comrades, who had campaigned, along with the rest of France, for a Ruhr detached from Germany, found themselves suddenly in clear opposition to Russia. Said one member of the French Politbureau: " 'It never rains but it pours' was not a proverb invented by Karl Marx, but as far as we are concerned, it might as well have been. After the constitutional rebuff, the near defeat at the elections, last week's slapping down in the Chamber...
Just before Peron put on the sash of office, he brought about Government control of the six great Argentine universities, the Buenos Aires stockmarket, the all-powerful Central Bank, and the Industrial Union (equivalent of the U.S.'s National Association of Manufacturers). Once inaugurated, Peron paid off some old scores. The Government bureaucracy got the biggest shake-up in a generation; everyone "not identified with revolutionary ideals or imbued with the precepts of social justice" was suspect...
...when the late Andrew William Mellon founded his first Pittsburgh bank, he called it "The Union Transfer and Trust Co." The choice of name was unfortunate. So many householders asked to have their furniture moved that the title had to be changed to "The Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh...