Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are Grace Anthony of Malden; Joan Capeel of Port Chester, N. Y.; Antonia Handler Chayes of New York City; Mary Davis of Suffolk County, L. I. N. Y.; Alice Gilbert of New York City; Alice Gossard of Wollaston; Muriel Kaplan of Chelsea; Jennifer Seltridge of Red Bank, N. J.; Raya Speigel of New York City; Irene Tinker of Wilmington, Del.; and Naney Woodman of Wellesley...
...after V-J day, an audience of G.I.'s greeted him with the chant, "When do we go home?" McCloy feigned deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. The third baseman was wild. Later, at a banquet, the local after-dinner speakers kept asking for money from the guest of honor's Bank. When McCloy rose to speak, the atmosphere seemed sticky. He promptly aired...
...year-old Herman Engelhard, a miserly recluse worth $99,000. The hoodlums who broke into Engelhard's drab South Side apartment in April 1948 were counting on a big haul, but all they got was $12. Just the day before, Engelhard had deposited his cash in a bank. The maddened robbers beat Engelhard over the head with an iron pipe and left...
Named with Tucker were Harold A. Karsten, alias Abraham Karatz, a promoter who once served a jail term for bank embezzlement conspiracy; former Investment Banker Floyd D. Cerf, whose firm had a net worth of only $87,352, yet made $2,500,000 on the sale of Tucker stock; and five former Tucker directors...
Keepsake. In Weatherford, Tex., Bank President Fred Smith explained how two Arkansas bank robbers happened to have a crowbar inscribed "Citizens National Bank, Weatherford, Tex.": the crowbars were distributed as souvenirs three years ago "but we never thought they would be put to such...