Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paced his room in San Francisco's Hotel Stewart last week, Isaac Garrett Fox neither looked nor felt like a desperado. He was 53-a sallow, nervous man who wore eyeglasses and false teeth, and was growing bald. He had served eight years (1931-39) in Tennessee for bank robbery, and the thought of prison terrified him. But he was sick, out of work, and three weeks behind in his rent. That helped him make up his mind...
...train to Oakland, and wandered along sidewalks until he found a car with the ignition key in the lock. He got in, drove away, stole a different set of license plates and put them on the stolen car. Then he drove to the South Berkeley branch of the Bank of America...
...bank's manager walked up, Fox pulled out his pistol and said: "I want all the money-and I'm not fooling." He kept the manager covered while a woman teller scooped $8,155 in currency into a canvas bag and brought it to him. He backed to the door, walked out, made a getaway...
...this week it was clear that the only "anti-inflation" bills with any chance of passage were those to control consumer credit and to tighten up bank loans. Congress might also approve the $65 million building loan for U.N., and remove the discriminatory provisions from the D.P. bill. The rest of the President's program had no more chance than a snowball in summer Washington...
...added another once-big name to her list of informants: Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, one of the architects of the World Bank. Like Currie, said Miss Bentley, Harry White helped put Communists in strategic offices and supplied information to her through Silvermaster. She added: "Mr. White knew where it was going but preferred not to mention the fact...