Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Bank and the Stabilization Fund, twin babes of Bretton Woods, last week pulled on their long pants...
...rejected the Communist-sponsored Constitution, special emissary Leon Blum, who had been cajoling U.S. officials for eight weeks, found his path easier. Washington woke up to the fact that, France might be saved for the world the U.S. hoped to build. At week's end the Export-Import Bank was on the point of giving France new.credits of about $650,000,000. Washington was well aware that France will elect a new Assembly June 2. Said a U.S. Treasury official: "We'll see if loans have a favorable effect on politics...
...pleasant May afternoon in Seoul has been disturbed for several hours now by a long blast of Korean oratory, hurled into the streets from a loudspeaker in a former Japanese bank building. "We will fight for independence," an unseen speaker shouts, "until the last Korean is dead!" Other voices are summoning Koreans to a mass meeting on behalf of freedom...
...still in that sort of a world. I'm not talking about men like Bradley and Eisenhower. I've never seen them but I have great respect .for them. It's just the big slob who is vice president of the Second National Bank and president of the Chamber of Commerce, only now he's been in the Army. . . . I couldn't say that sort of thing while I was in the service. Now is my time to howl...
...barren quarters in a Washington office building on H Street that had no rugs, no safe and only borrowed furniture, the executive directors of the bank held their first meeting. Diplomatically, the U.S. informed them that it has not yet selected the Bank's president. What this meant was that President Truman has not yet got a yes from his latest candidate for the job, Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal...