Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last week Richard H. Crowe might have served as the mold and pattern of the rising executive. He had risen, job by job, for 19 years with Manhattan's great National City Bank; at 40, he was the assistant manager of a branch on Broadway-a bulky, assured, well-dressed man whose manners, energy and way with elder bank officers stamped him plainly as bound for bigger things...
...overnight last week, all this evidence as to the mind, character, instincts and aspirations of Richard H. Crowe lost its validity, and he became a stranger to all who knew him best. The National City discovered that $883,660-the largest sum ever stolen from a Manhattan bank-was missing from a vault at the branch bank...
...Dinner. The theft was easily reconstructed. Crowe had stayed late at the bank on Friday the week before, had opened the vault and taken out $193,660 in small bills, five U.S. $100,000 Treasury bonds, and $190,000 in bonds of smaller denominations. He put his loot in a brown handbag, took the ferry to Staten Island, calmly tossed his treasure into the family Buick, and went off to meet Mrs. Crowe for dinner at a Staten Island country club...
...passed herself off as a Catholic. She was sent by the Germans to work in a Viennese shirt factory, where she precariously waited out the war. In July 1947, she was brought to the U.S. by the United Service for New Americans. She found work in a bank, lived in a lonely furnished room in Brooklyn, knocked on many doors in search of Anna Sobel...
...there were some who suspected that automobiles and inflated prices were spoiling the old place. "They're killing the golden goose," growled an old U.S. visitor. "It costs us 150% more to live here than at home." A warning came from H. J. ("Jack") Tucker, manager of the Bank of Bermuda: "Tourists don't need to come here." Some Bermudians had bought West Indies real estate to the south, with a view to clearing out before the bust. But for the time being, with more & more tourists ready to pay fancy prices, the Bermuda boom...