Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Falmouth, Ky., 400 farmers flooded the main intersection with their milk; in Paul, Idaho, thousands of pounds* were dumped, symbolically, in front of a bank. Scores of fields in a score of states were churned into lacteal goo by the deluge, and in New Jersey-where farmers and their wives and children walked through a snowstorm to deliver their complaints to the state-house-nearly 1,000,000 Ibs. still warm from the cow, turned a Sussex County snowfield into curds...
Things used to be far worse. In 1833, no less a figure than Daniel Webster wrote the president of the Bank of the U.S. that if he wished the Senator's help against an attack on the bank, "it may be well to send the usual retainers." Big businessmen often "bought" themselves Senators by bribing the state legislatures, which at that time elected them, leading Mark Twain to remark: "I think I can say and say with pride that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than anywhere in the world...
...were told when Mrs. Donham asked for space that this was to be an appeal for funds for medical help," H. Gardner Bradlee, president of the bank, said yesterday...
...Donham claimed last night however that she had told the bank that her display would consist of pictures of Vietnamese children -- but she did not tell them about the anti-war angle...
Explaining his position, Bradlee explained the windows are not intended for displays of a political nature. It is not the job of the bank to express its opinions in this way on questions of national policy, he added...