Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the reasons behind the government's collapse, nimble young King Constantine promptly quelled the crisis by appointing a nonpolitical caretaker Premier to prepare for elections which, Constantine decreed, will not be held until May. The man for the job: National Bank Governor Ioannis Paraskevopoulos. The white-haired former economics professor should do well. He performed the same task in 1964, and elections at that time went off so well that even his opponents admiringly dubbed him "the impeccable caretaker Premier...
...many more of Saxon's controversial branch approvals might now be subject to attack. Many bankers seemed to agree with President Jack T. Conn of the American Bankers Association, who called the ruling "wonderful." But not Saxon, who became co-chairman of the American Fletcher Na tional Bank & Trust Co. of Indianapolis after his term as comptroller expired last month. Saxon scoffed at Clark's opinion as "superficial," forecast a new wave of litigation over branching laws, criticized the way the Government had defended his position. "The original brief prepared in our office was masterly," he said...
...Logan, First National Bank promised to keep battling too. For a start, the bank said that it will sue to test the constitutionality of Utah's restrictive branching...
...Dodder Bank. When Joyce's Paris patron, Sylvia Beach, wrote to George Bernard Shaw, offering to sell him an early copy of Ulysses, Shaw replied: "I am an elderly Irish gentleman and if you imagine that any Irishman, much less an elderly one, would pay 150 francs for a book, you little know my countrymen." Joyce won a box of cigars on that exchange: knowing his countrymen, he had bet that Shaw would decline. Yet Shaw in another letter refutes the canard that he was disgusted by Ulysses. Writing to London's Picture Post, Shaw explained...
...never hear that music again because I can never believe again) at the time I used to meet you, every second night you kept an appointment with a friend of mine outside the Museum, you went with him along the same streets, down by the canal . . . down to the bank of the Dodder. You stood with him: he put his arm round you and you lifted your face and kissed him. What else did you do together?" Joyce had no sooner mailed the letter than he discovered that he had been cruelly hoaxed by the other man: Nora...