Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doughnuts in the Kitchen. Soon all Borculo was working side by side at the project. At the committee table, the white-haired Protestant dominee rubbed shoulders with the boyish Catholic priest, the leader of the socialist youth movement, and the bald-headed director of the bank. In Borculo kitchens, sweating huisvrouwen labored tirelessly, preparing thousands of doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm...
...Father's House. Joseph Mindszenty comes from fighters' country-the low, rolling Dunantul, on the western bank of the Danube, the rampart where for 150 years Hungarians fought the Turkish invaders from the East. He was born (1892) in the village of Csehimindszenty, the son of Janos Pehm. The Communists make much of the fact that the Pehms are of German origin although they have lived in Hungary for three centuries. Janos Pehm was a peasant. He was also mayor of the village, a bold, devout man who perpetually rebelled against the county's landlords and petty...
...wedding feasts that lasted well into the next day. He indignantly ruled that there would be no more weddings on Saturday; he wanted all his flock fit for Mass on Sunday. Once he called in a young chaplain and said: "Last night I observed you walking along the river bank with a widow. First, I do not think it proper that a young chaplain walk alone on a lonely road at night; second, I do not think it correct for him to walk with a young widow; and third, if you did these things, you should ask for your transfer...
When the Somerville National Bank and the Progressive Workingmans Credit Union foreclosed their mortgages on the entire plant and equipment of the Valeteria last week, the corporation was left with an estimated $16,000 to $18,000 in liabilities, including almost $2,000 in outstanding coupors and only a few hundred dollars of assets...
DeTucci said that he does not believe that redemption of outstanding coupons will take preference over the bank debt, but that he hopes to make some kind of refund, probably at a discount...