Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help her discharge her responsibilities, the Dutch people have elected a sober, able lot of politicians. The two largest parties, the Laborites and the Catholics, work well together. The Netherlands' Premier, Willem Drees, is a quiet, respected Socialist who started out as a bank clerk and parliamentary stenographer. Last week he peered through his pince-nez from behind his neat desk and spoke to a U.S. newsman. "Western Union? A fine and necessary thing, but it will take a lot of time ... Holland is grateful indeed...
...What should I do: cancel my subscription or go out and rob a bank...
...Deal brain-truster, he was one of the authors of the ill-famed Morgenthau Plan, which would have reduced Germany to an agrarian country. He represented the U.S. at Bretton Woods, birthplace of the World Bank. Over a year ago he had left his last Government post, as U.S. executive director of the International Monetary Fund, and become a Manhattan fiscal consultant...
...most household goods, payment of the balance in 15 months (if less than $1,000) or 18 months (if above $1,000). Meanwhile the trend toward higher interest rates, which the Treasury and FRB had started by upping their short-term and rediscount rates, continued; the Chase National Bank raised its rates on call money (brokers' loans) from...
When he proposed he said: " 'I'm earning twenty-two a week and I've got nearly two hundred dollars in the Bushwick Savings Bank . . . I've never horsed around with women. You're the first girl I was ever serious about. Maybe you could do better-a girl like you. But you could do a lot worse than taking me . . .' Thus he laid his meager shining life before...