Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money to do when he must look at his only son lying in bed paralyzed from waist to feet? Quiet, hard-working John Edwin Byers of Chanute, Kans. found his own desperate answer. He put a hunting rifle in his battered Ford sedan, drove off and held up a bank. The $900 paid for sending his 13-year-old son, Albert, to Spears Clinic in Denver...
That was five years ago. His son got no better. John Byers, father of four daughters besides, held up another bank. Then, as time passed, another and another. He never got big money; his first five robberies netted only $4,500. But until early this month he was never suspected. Then he took $863 from the First National Bank of Le Roy, Kans. and his luck ran out. His car broke down on a mud road as he backtracked to shake off pursuit; a farmer who helped him repair it saw that it bore no license plates...
...liberal in its gifts (average: 400 pesos) or as polished in its situations as U.S. "bank night" shows, Prizes & Surprises has more genuine hilarity because its audience is more forthright. The 500 fans who weekly jampack XEW's bright, modern studio in Mexico City are game for any gag or gimmick. Men have taken off and pressed their pants on stage; women have wrestled with greased pigs...
...weeks, Mary and her husband shook tin cans with coin slits at passers-by until they had acquired $3,000. Gradually Mary and her neighbors got neighborly. In her first year she held parties in her front parlor, taught cooking classes in tenements, organized a penny bank, a children's reading room. In between she mopped floors...
...Paul. In Springfield, Mo., Farmer William N. Thompson stuck up Bank No. 1, was nabbed before he could pay off his mortgage to Bank...