Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When she refused to withhold taxes from the wages of her 40 employees, the U.S. Government claimed and got $1,-685.40 from the Westport, Conn, bank account of Industrialist Vivien Kellems. Spinster Kellems promised to sue the bank, organize business men and women into a "mighty crusading force to abolish the withholding...
...Zanesville, Ohio, schoolboys took over the city government for a day, promptly broke up a poker game, raided a numbers bank and were fixing to raid a brothel when embarrassed officials stopped them...
During nearly three years as Britain's rulers, Britain's Labor Party has given up great chunks of empire-India, Burma, Ceylon. At home it has nationalized transport, coal, electric power, aviation, overseas communication and the Bank of England. It has also raised taxes and cut rations, and its popularity has taken a definite, although possibly not decisive, slump. Last week the Labor Party met at Scarborough in its annual conference to take stock of its accomplishments and chart its further aims. From Scarborough TIME Senior Editor Max Ways reported...
Shaw who had drawn $100 in Jefferson notes from his bank that morning, had only $68 left when he was apprehended...
Despite reports from some students that they had seen him putting bills under doors, by last night no one had admitted receiving any money. However, one Square bank, which had announced Saturday that balances in students' accounts had fallen dangerously low, noted an unusually large number of two-dollar deposits yesterday...