Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mortuis. . . In Manila, Judge de la Rosa played it safe, gave a six-month sentence to slippery Bank Robber Antonio San Juan, dead a month...
...Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific) last fall, the Government has prescribed a set of anti-inflationary measures which one U.S. correspondent dubbed SCAPitalism: 1) restriction of cash incomes to a monthly maximum of 500 yen (about $33 at the present arbitrary rate of exchange); 2) freezing of bank accounts (individuals may not withdraw more than 300 yen a month); 3) collection and distribution of essential foodstuffs through official channels only...
...bustling, bespectacled Theodore Andrica (rhymes with Eureka), 45, knows the immigrant's nostalgia for the old country. Broke when he landed in the U.S. in 1921, he worked as an orderly in a Buffalo hospital, was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in Erie, Pa., changed from cleric to bank clerk, drifted to Cleveland...
Hatry, now 56, rose from a West End clerkship to control of the Commercial Bank of London after World War I. Soon there was an un-British display of Hatry wealth: ornate bathrooms for his office suite, a swimming pool in his Mayfair home, a yacht, a racing stable. In 1924, his bank failed...
...intriguing tales of intrigue (sometimes four at once to four stenographers) ; at St.-Peter-Port, on Guernsey. Acrawl with femmes fatales and rifled dispatch cases, "Opp's" novels were only more frequently fraught with fantastics than his life: he made poker legal in England, twice almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo, once captured a German...