Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Darby learned the boilermaker's trade in his father's small shop, was a combat artillery captain in World War I, and on his father's death in 1923 brashly borrowed $120,000 from a bank to buy and improve his father's boiler shop, groomed it into a rich and versatile steel-fabricating company...
Flanders was elected to his first Senate term in 1946. He was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 1944 to 1946. Before that he was chairman of the board of Jones & Lamson Company, held several positions in government agencies, and was chairman of the Research Committee and trustee of the Committee for Economic Development...
That was only the beginning of it. Under an old and odd Connecticut law, all the liquid and real assets jointly owned by Mrs. McCullough and her husband, a picture editor of TIME, were forthwith frozen: a $2,000 bank account, a piece of property worth about $7,500, their $65,000 house (mortgaged...
...Paris, thousands of workers went to their jobs on bicycles, in private cars, in big blue sightseeing buses mobilized by the government. One energetic bank clerk arrived on roller skates. Across France, food shops, department stores, restaurants were open, mail was delivered. One of the Socialists' own cabinet ministers called the strike a "fiasco." But the Communists had different ideas on what was good advertising: they triumphantly labeled the strike a succès éclatant...
...wasn't until March 20, 1924 that the fund drive Dean Donham called for got underway. However, under the late William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, the campaign was unexpectedly concluded in little more than a month when the late George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, wrote the University offering $5,000,000 if he could "have the privilege of building the whole school...