Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark picked out a large, comfortable office in Vienna's massive National Bank Building for indispensable paper work, and a large, comfortable villa on the outskirts of the U.S. zone for no less indispensable banquets; then he started to see what could be done about the Russians...
...Dear Old Spire." On his strolls through the city, Clark might walk through parks in which bank clerks now plant vegetable gardens, though many parks had already been used for another purpose: the burying of Red Army dead. The Hotel Sacher, which had witnessed much of the monarchy's history and more of its amours, is now a British officers' club. In the Kärntner Strasse (Vienna's Fifth Avenue) the stores are gaping and shattered; at the Cathedral of St. Stephen, Nazi artillery and flames have left the foreparts of the choir and the high...
...deceived and imposed upon by artful and designing persons," declared an old friend, Francis Gudger. Gudger asked a Los Angeles court to appoint himself and another friend as the lantern-jawed, two-gunman's lawful guardians. William S. Hart Jr. begged to differ; he (and a bank) should get the guardian assignment. While the legalistic bullets whined and sang, the old hero, who admits to 70-odd and is worth about $1,000,000, lay beyond the battle, gravely ill in a Los Angeles hospital...
Independent owners, who have strongly backed the Government suit, feared they were now no better off than before. The major companies, owning the best theaters and having the biggest bank accounts, could always outbid them for films. The chances were that the Antitrust Division, still holding out for divestiture, would appeal to the Supreme Court and put the case back in the grinder...
...Morgan & Co. & First National Bank of N.Y.; Kuhn-Loeb & Co.; Rockefeller, Mellon and Du Pont families...