Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Death came last week to the softspoken, knife-witted, twinkle-eyed author of this definition, himself a master-economist. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, died of heart disease on Easter Day at his manor of Tilton, Sussex. He had just returned from setting up the World Bank and Fund which he had helped to draft in 1944 at Bretton Woods...
Official Britain steered clear of Keynes after his 1919 characterization of Lloyd George as a "Welsh witch." But in the depths of 1940 Churchill summoned him back as economic adviser. In effect, he had run the British Treasury ever since. Elected a director of the Bank of England in 1941, he smiled: "Orthodoxy has at last caught up with...
...editors tell me that the final decision to do the Giannini cover was made ten days before the issue came out. The decision was squarely on the news: the next week Giannini's Bank of America passed Manhattan's Chase National Bank in deposits, putting it once again in the lead for the title of world's richest bank. This made a good newspeg for telling the story of the current prosperity and boundless optimism of the Pacific Coast...
...weeks Sidney James's Pacific Coast staff had been bombarding us with copy on the coast's present situation. Still needed was an examination of the part that Giannini and his sprawling banking system had played and would play in it. Giannini was sunning himself at Palm Beach. Our nearest staff correspondent (Atlanta) was sick; so we sent Ed Lockett, one of our Washington bureau's most experienced reporters, to get Giannini's side of the story. Unable to find a plane seat on such short notice, Lockett took the night train...
...Government accused Chen, among other things, of persecuting patriots, making secret treaties with Japan, and injecting propaganda into textbooks. In his 60,000-word defense, Chen denied everything-including any motives of personal gain. Said he: "I have no house on earth, and no cash in the bank. If I say I have no property, people won't believe me. If I admit I have, I won't believe myself...