Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lifted Fort Wayne to the occasion was 39-year-old Hans Schwieger (rhymes with eager), a broad and tall German refugee. His 89-piece orchestra of teachers, factory workers, salesmen, engineers, bank clerks and housewives had been eked out with 16 recruits from Chicago's Symphony Orchestra and rehearsed to professional pitch...
...rash of cheery press releases and bad feeling, the operating mechanism for the World Bank & Fund was set up last week at Savannah. Basic causes of the trouble were the old differences between Britain and the U.S. on how Bretton Woods should be implemented. But there was a new irritant. U.S. Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson looked like a weary ewe, but ran the nine-day conference with ram-like authority. He got exactly what he wanted-and the British be damned...
...member of the Bank's twelve-man board of executive directors, the U.S. named little-known Emilio Gabriel Collado, 35, who looks more like a fullback than a banker. A Harvard Ph.D., music lover and longtime economist for the Treasury and the State Department, he was generally regarded as a good choice...
...White, one of the foster fathers of Bretton Woods and top U.S. expert. They get on well with him, thought he was the best man to head the Fund. Instead, he was relegated to the less important job of director. (President will probably be Graham Towers, governor of the Bank of Canada...
...most important U.S. Bretton Woods official will be the president of the Bank. Leading candidate for the $30,000-a-year job was Lewis Douglas, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. and an old crony of Fred Vinson's. A onetime Democratic Congressman from Arizona, and U.S. Budget Director, he had quit the New Deal in protest against its spending policies. His appointment would be a sop to conservative Democrats...