Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your account of the founding of A. P. Giannini's Bank of Italy in that remodeled San Francisco saloon [TIME, April 15] has one mistake. The assistant cashier, Armando Pedrini, was not the saloon's bartender. Armando Pedrini, graduate of the Royal Technical Institute of Bologna, was hired away from the Columbus Savings & Loan Society where he was a teller. Later, after he had hit the top in A. P.'s organization (president of National Bankitaly Co., Bankitaly Co. America, Corp. of America), he joined up with the Elisha Walker group which tried to take over Transamerica...
...Simple Life. Although Jimmy Byrnes told France that she could have an Export-Import Bank loan, the Senate had debated for three weeks the British loan which the Administration considered the keystone of its credit program. Did the Senate's mood (sometimes willful and irresponsible) mirror the nation's mood? By their tactics Senators also jeopardized the draft, which is a second keystone of U.S. participation in world affairs...
...Moment. The battle had begun on Thursday afternoon. Bernard Paul Coy, 46, bank robber, buried with some 280 other incorrigibles in the tomb of steel and concrete, had had plenty of time to brood in nine years of imprisonment. Alcatraz, with its electric eyes which searched men, its hand-picked guards, its isolation in the middle of the Bay, was supposed to be escape-proof...
...Killers. D block is Alcatraz' "solitary." There Coy freed Joseph Cretzer; bank robber and murderer; Marvin Hubbard, kidnaper; Sam Shockley, Oklahoma badman; Miran Thompson, murderer; 18-year-old "baby" Clarence Carnes. They pounced on Guard William Miller, beat him, took his keys. They threw other guards in a cell. Cretzer, armed with Burch's .45, stood outside yelling and firing at the guards through the bars. He wounded several, killed Miller...
...Paris Salon was old stuff, the Left Bank Galerie de Bac was fresh as a daisy. Its show sent critics scrambling for superlatives. The object of their admiration was 40-year-old Gertrude O'Brady from Evanston, Ill. She was the protégée of Critic Anatole Jakovsky (Bref), who led the field by burbling: "O'Brady is the only great painter of the New World." Critic Maximilien Gauthier (Opéra) predicted that O'Brady would become a "great name in the history...