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Word: banke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After several merchants, a tavern owner and the Jefferson Bank and Trust Co. had cashed advertising mailers designed to look like $10 checks, the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis pointed out that nowhere on the "check" did there appear the name of a bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...neighbors, who used to watch dapper little James ("Occo") Tamer mowing his front lawn, didn't suspect that he was an ex-gunman and bank robber. The Detroit police knew. What's more, they had a pretty good idea that velvet-voiced little Jimmy (out of prison on parole) was Detroit's public enemy No.1-resident boss of the city's dope smugglers, policy operators, syndicate thieves (specializing in furs and jewelry) and bookmaking ring. He wasn't the kind of man who could do it all on his own: he was, the police were convinced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey's Dirty Linen | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Twenty dollars must accompany an application for admission to the Law School, and Erwin N. Griswold, conscientious Dean, will accept no more. He yesterday returned the $1,000,020 admission check at the right to the National Bank of New Jersey as being somewhat too large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Dean Spurns $1,000,020 Check | 3/17/1948 | See Source »

...official explanation has yet been issued for the mighty miscalculation of either the bank or the Law School. Rumors say that an anonymous clerk has always wanted to be a lawyer. Others note that New Brunswick has never been famous for 20-20 vision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Dean Spurns $1,000,020 Check | 3/17/1948 | See Source »

...sharp price rise in cotton last week was also sparked by the Government. The rise was based on a deal for the Government's Export-Import Bank and private banks to extend credits of $120 million to Japan for the purchase of U.S. cotton. Next day cotton futures soared as much as $1.75 a bale, to $172.30, highest closing price in a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Here Comes Clint | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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