Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will request between $3 billion and $3.5 billion, although Congress gave him only $2.94 billion last year. Some Democratic leaders, notably Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, want to restructure the whole aid effort by ending bilateral arrangements and channeling funds into such agencies as the World Bank instead. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen merely aims to cut the total. The U.S., Dirksen said during his portion of the G.O.P. address, must pay "more attention to the conservation of our own strength and resources and less to those nations of the world that regard us as an amiable...
According to Baker, Kerr at once promised personally to lend him $50,000, advanced him $10,000 of it forthwith and arranged an additional $250,000 line of credit from an Oklahoma City bank...
Armed with their cash bribes, many first went on a spending spree for what passes for luxury goods in China. As a result, sales of watches, radios and cotton goods were belatedly banned, and the Maoists issued orders freezing wages and bank withdrawals. In Shanghai, where Mao backers and anti-Mao farmers fresh from the country confronted one another, the anti-Mao city authorities were accused of trying to withdraw more than $400,000 in funds at a stroke. Trying to get the country's industry running again without its regular workers or managers, Maoist students took over...
...them to rise up against the "bourgeois reactionaries" bucking Mao. The anti-Maoists were accused of organizing workers into Red Militia Brigades as an answer to the Red Guards, of encouraging labor to stop production and go to Peking to protest against the Cultural Revolution. Putting "not politics but bank notes in command," railed Peking, the anti-Maoists used their control of local party funds to raise wages and welfare allowances, provided the dissident marchers to Peking with handsome travel allowances and new clothes, and doled out choice government housing to their families...
...told his mistress, Lucy Krohg, who still runs a gallery on Paris' Right Bank, that he could no longer cross a street without her. The passage of time frightened him so much, she recalled last week, that he once threw a grandfather's clock out of the window. But time caught up with him. In 1930, at the age of 45, Pascin slashed his wrists, wrote "Lucy, Forgive me" on the wall with his own blood, and finding death too slow in coming determinedly hanged himself from his studio door...