Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frankie Costello is an underworldling with a difference: he has more money than most bank presidents and he never seems to be around when any rough stuff is going on. This enables him to maintain a snug Manhattan apartment and a big house in the Long Island countryside, to contribute to worthy causes, and to control as many Tammany politicians as he finds convenient...
...theater, a voice that spoke out for the underprivileged. But the author of "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," and "Golden Boy" remained in Hollywood, writing scenarios and letting out an occasional yelp about "every motion-picture being cut on the stone floor of a Wall Street bank." This was paltry assurance of his continued concern with the proletariat...
...Minister Juan Bramuglia was known to have come back from Europe and the U.S. with the word that Argentina's economic policy, which had about wrecked the nation's foreign trade, was too inflexible. And it was a fact that the men who would henceforth manage the Bank and IAPI had served under Bramuglia the greater part of their political lives, Ares as economic chief in the Foreign Office, Morales as Bramuglia's assistant at Bogota' and Paris. If their appointments meant anything, they foreshadowed a break from Miranda's rigid selling policies...
...such casual choices as that and McDonnell aircraft were not satisfactory to the methodical Rockefellers. Three years ago the Rockefellers formed Rock Bros., to put their capital to work. They already had a treatise to guide them. David, the youngest of the family, who "works down at the bank" (Chase National), got his Ph.D. on "The Theory of Capital Resources and Economic Waste...
Died. Joseph Wright Harriman,*81, Manhattan banker (Harriman National Bank & Trust Co.) who, after his bank failed in 1933, served a two-year prison sentence for misapplying funds; in Sea Cliff...