Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those soft, goreless westerns, and it pleases neither the addict nor the casual moviegoer. What it lacks mainly is an original gimmick to replace the familiar action. Without this the movie is a formless as a jellyfish and generates about the same interest. Joel McCrea portrays a sincere bank-robber who hoists 2,000 realm of New Mexican sandstone wishing to hell he hadn't taken the dough. He falls in love with a nice-looking girl, does a few good deeds, said turns himself in before things...
...Real Culprits. The case for support was made before the American Bankers Association last week in Detroit by its former president, Frank C. Rathje, of Chicago's Mutual National Bank. Dropping the peg, he said, might well "provoke a storm." The real inflationary culprits, charged Rathje, were not the banks, but the non-bank lending agencies, primarily the insurance companies...
...twelve months ending June 30, he said, the insurance companies had cashed in nearly $3 billion worth of Government securities, twice as much as the banks, and had upped their loans and investments by $6 billion. Altogether, said Rathje, the lending power of non-bank interests had risen by $15 billion, or at three times the rate of FRB member banks. His remedy: put the lending of non-bank agencies under federal regulation...
Many an Argentine scoffed-discreetly. Only fanatic Peronistas took the plot seriously. John Griffiths seemed to be both amused and bewildered at his new prominence across the Plata. Five months ago, he had been jailed in B.A. on Peronistas' charges that he had fomented a bank strike in Argentina's capital; the new role assigned to him seemed to knowing Argentines to fit even more awkwardly. The "plotters" rounded up in Buenos Aires were an oddly assorted group: Cipriano Reyes, a former Peronista labor leader now in the opposition, three priests, a half-blind doctor, two women...
...bust in sight. There were plenty of signs of the boom's end, he told the Mortgage Bankers Association in Manhattan, "in the slackening rate of increase in spending, in the slower rise in prices and wages, in the halt of the increase in bank credit, and in the drop in the net export surplus...