Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emergency was discovered last Friday when the Massachusetts blood bank, which usually gives blood free to whoever needs if, announced that it was refusing requests because of a low supply...
Married. Cornelia Mary Vanderbilt, 49, expatriate great-granddaughter of the late "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt (in 1925 she inherited some $40 million from her father, George Washington Vanderbilt) ; and Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson, 58, bank secretary; both for the second time; in London...
With no warning to FRB, Transamerica President Sam Husbands announced a sale of 1,199,554 Bank of America shares on the open market, to lower Bank of America holdings from 22.8% to 11.1%. The stock sale, said Husbands, would bring in some $50 million which would be used "to liquidate loans" that were necessary to buy the stock originally "and to provide working capital...
...former RFC director and onetime South Carolina banker, Sam Husbands, in the words of his onetime boss Jesse Jones, "knows more about banks than any man in the U.S." He also knows a lot about what goes on in Washington. FRB is backing a bill in Congress which would give the board greater regulatory powers over bank holding companies that control more than 15% of the stock of an operating bank. Once Transamerica's holdings in Bank of America are reduced to 11.1%, it could argue that FRB should not be concerned with Transamerica even though the 11.1% might...
...little girls waited for their permanent teeth to come in, she wore costly false teeth to hide the gaps from the camera. When she was ten, a Dies Committee witness denounced her as a Communist dupe. At 13, she was a has-been (with $3,000,000 in the bank). At 16, making a comeback, Shirley got her first screen kiss. At 17, when she was barely out of high school, she got married, and at 19 she gave birth to a daughter...