Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virgil State Bank had reached the end of the line. There will be a stockholders' meeting this month, and the bank will probably shut down and pay off. Schramer's valedictory was sorrowful: "We've tried to fight it off, but when the cashier couldn't take it any more we decided to close the bank. There's nothing on earth got a farm beat...
Born. To Henry Luce III, 23, Hoover Commission staffer, and Patricia Potter Luce, 22, daughter of John S. Potter, an officer of the Bank of China: their first child (and first grandchild of TIME Editor Henry R. Luce), a daughter; in Washington. Name: Lila Frances Livingston. Weight...
...abide by the rules in the future, the Fund has the power to expel South Africa or at least freeze the $15 million on which South Africa is eligible to draw this year. There was a greater threat. The Fund, controlled by the U.S., might persuade the Export-Import Bank to turn thumbs down on South Africa's application for a $100 million loan. In any case, the Fund had no intention of being pressured into boosting the price of gold...
...Gray closed the door of his $30,000 house in Sycamore Park, Conn, and eased himself into the Buick beside his wife. On this rainy spring morning in 1947, as she did every weekday morning, Nancy was driving him to catch the 8:30 train to his Fifth Avenue bank job in midtown Manhattan. To Charley, this always seemed the friendliest time of the day. He noticed how Nancy's hair curled below the edges of her green hat and he realized gratefully that he could talk to her about the children, or the household budget...
This morning, Nancy broke the spell. There was a vice presidency open at Charley's bank and everyone knew it lay between Charley and Roger Blakesley. The strain of waiting for President Anthony Burton to make up his mind had made Nancy taut. "Why don't you ask Burton what the score is?" she asked. "Aren't you tired of waiting...