Word: banker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high as 6% just 18 months ago, are now charging as little as 5¼%. One Brooklyn bank is so eager to shovel out mortgage money that its appraisers cruise out to house sites in telephone-equipped cars so that they can report back faster. Says one San Francisco banker: "I'm dickering for a house loan myself. It's a good time...
...Bonding agencies refused to lend anything, so his wife scraped up $40,000 out of savings and life insurance policies. An acquaintance, George Kirstein, publisher of the liberal weekly, the Nation, rounded up the remaining $60,000. He called Mrs. Helen Lehman Buttenwieser, wealthy wife of an investment banker, niece of New York's ex-Senator Herbert H. Lehman, and herself a sometime attorney for Alger Hiss...
...jeweler reported a pickup in sales of diamonds, presumably to buyers who had decided that rocks are safer than stocks.) There were some other signs of consumer caution. Savings deposits in New York banks rose sharply in June, while applications for loans to buy expensive cars fell. A Boston banker reported that some of his customers were fattening their savings accounts with the proceeds of stock sales. In Detroit and Southern California, prospective home buyers were suddenly reluctant to tie themselves up in long mortgages. Says a California real estate man: "I've never seen anything like it. People...
Divorced. Philip H. Willkie, 42, banker-lawyer son of Wendell: by Rosalie Heffelfinger Willkie, 38, who testified that he abandoned her in Tokyo last year while on a world tour; after eleven years of marriage, three sons; in New Castle...
...good old songs.'' But the pianola's biggest comeback is in the parlor. Many buyers are women who recall the pleasure of pumping one as a child and want to share the fun with their own kids. In suburban Elmhurst, 111., Mrs. Janet Carman, a banker's wife and mother of four children, recently bought a reconditioned player...