Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme: his antipathy toward big business, big cities; his faith in small colleges, banks and towns. Almost nostalgically he recalled spending "the best ten years of my life" on a 540-acre farm in Jackson County, Mo. "I would rather see a thousand banks," he said, "than one National City Bank. I would rather see a hundred steel companies than one United States Steel Corporation." Explained the biggest shot in the biggest Government in the world: "Those small institutions give some two or three men a chance to be big shots in their communities. When you go to [big ones...
...them guns a little lower." Rather, he insisted, we should "conduct our own affairs with. . . the type of judgement, as Judge Brandeis used to say, which leads a man not to stand in front of a locomotive." Directing attention toward problems of manageable dimensions "like the monetary fund, the bank, the trade organization, and, if possible, the control of atomic energy," will be an achievement "which will modify many situations which now concern us, including--and I am now guessing--our relations with the Soviet Union," Acheson asserted...
Five blocks from the bank, the children, 200 by then, ran the robber to earth. As he fell exhausted in the street, between the street car tracks, a police patrol came up, nabbed him and the $1,800 he had taken...
André Le Plantier, 50, meek-eyed bank teller: "At the liberation, when I saw the sacrifices they made for France, I felt a moral obligation...
...Montreal's teeming Hochelaga tenement district last week, five moppets played cops & robbers in an alley behind a branch of the Banque Canadienne Nationale. Suddenly a man with a gun in his hand came tearing out of the bank, pursued by a yelling clerk. This was the real thing...