Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next came an important Communist, badly wanted by the security police. The fact that she sheltered him laid Stavroula wide open to more party blackmail. Soon she was in up to her neck. Together with one of the city's big booksellers, an official in the Bank of Greece, the owner of a smart perfume shop and others, Stavroula formed a link in Athens' Communist apparatus. Each shop was used in turn as a yavka (Russian for front) for shipping recruits to guerrilla bands in the mountains...
...Central Bank last week, importers and exporters found it almost impossible to learn where the country stood on the foreign exchange transactions, and no wonder. The bank had no head. Bank President Orlando Maroglio, outspoken foe of Miranda's high-price policies, had finally given up his fight with the economic czar (TIME, Oct.11), and resigned...
Until the tabloids came along, headlines tended to be wordy and dull, with each "bank" of type telling part of the story. Now, most headlines are briefer and more to the point. Nowhere in the U.S. are they as pointed, cynical, impudent or brassily clever as in the Daily News. Sample (on meat prices and inflation...
...bless the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Girard Trust Co., and the Republican Party." Thus, says Author Struthers Burt, the children of Philadelphia's rich once closed their bedtime prayers. Ever since ex-Mayor Benjamin W. Richards helped found the Girard in 1835 (naming it after Philanthropist Stephen Girard), the bank has been one of Philadelphia's strongest pillars of good business and decorum. It was the first trust company in its district to join the Federal Reserve System; it thought it should, "from the standpoint of patriotism." In its vaults lie the securities that make up some...
...Mergers. But the clubbiness did not get in the way of running the bank. In its 112 years, the bank passed serenely through a score of scares and panics. Girardmen like to say that it is almost the only top U.S. bank (in size, it is No. 86 in the U.S.) that has never merged or consolidated. And since 1837 it has failed to pay a dividend only once...