Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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I.T.U. and U.P.U., the BANK and I.C.A.O...
...budget was at the top of his work list. With Budget Director James E. Webb and Assistant Director Frank Pace Jr., he dug into his daily fiscal sessions with the stern attitude of a bank examiner. He startled Webb and Pace with his grasp of budget problems. He piqued military chieftains by refusing to raise the lid on the $15 billion limit which he had clamped on 1949 military expenditures. He was firmly convinced that a larger amount would do more harm than good to the nation's economic structure...
...Left Bank students the law was a godsend. Three hundred of them set up shop in vacant classrooms, answered as many as 50 calls a day, mostly from addled landlords. Said one young philosophy major: "We get 125 francs an hour. At first we were slow, but now we can do a whole house in an hour and a half. Anyhow, it beats baby-sitting...
...Edward A. O'Neal when he retired as president last year (TIME, Dec. 29). Farmer Kline last year raised $40,000 worth of hogs and hybrid corn on his Vinton (Iowa) farm; he also found time to sit on the board of Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank. He believes that if farmers are to stay free enterprisers, they should not rely too heavily on Government support...
...Washington Court House, Ohio. Brother of Harding's Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Mai refused to open his books to the Senate in 1924 (he was suspected of having part of the payoff funds on deposit), became a pariah in his own town after his conviction for misusing bank funds...