Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assistant and Under Secretary, Dean Acheson was always a highly competent explainer, advocate and executor of Administration policy. He acted as State's liaison man with Congress. He helped steer such complex and unwieldy vessels as Lend-Lease, UNRRA, the World Bank, the Export-Import Bank through diplomatic shoals. With David Lilienthal he wrote the plan for international control of atomic power which became the basis for U.S. policy...
...prevailing diplomatic manners, Franco's Spain was still not considered nice enough to sit down to dinner with the neighbors. But there seemed to be nothing against giving her enough money to enjoy a meal in her own dining hall. Last week, Manhattan's Chase National Bank, without objection from the U.S. State Department, gave Spain its first hearty handout from the U.S. since war's end: a $25 million short-term loan, for the purchase of fertilizers and electrical equipment. The loan was a gilt-edged risk, backed by Spanish gold reserves deposited in London, which...
...gobbling big & little banks and begetting new ones, crusty, crafty old (78) Amadeo P. Giannini had built his Bank of America into the world's biggest (522 branches). His Transamerica Corp., which owns 23% of the bank, had become the world's biggest bank holding company. Many big & little bankers have viewed his bigness with alarm, but none more loudly than Federal Reserve Board Member Marriner S. Eccles...
During a recess, Eccles stopped by Giannini's seat and extended his hand. "Nothing personal intended, you know," he began. A.P. blazed: "You're trying to put the Bank of America out of business and you can't do it. None of your gang...
...Just call me Stuffy," the grey-haired man in the well-tailored double breasted told varsity candidates at the opening baseball meeting two weeks ago. Trite? Not the way Harvard's new baseball Coach John McInnis said it. Although Athletic Director Bill Bingham said he looked like a bank president when he first walked into the HAA office last September, McInnis is anything but an executive when he puts on a pair of spikes and a sweat-suit, tucks a baseball in his hip pocket, and walks into Briggs Cage...