Word: bankerish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handles about one-third of all Malayan transactions with the Red mainland. It has played its part in boosting overall trade between the two countries to a whopping $152 million, of which $100 million represents a favorable balance for the Communists. Bank of China also engages in such un-bankerish activities as the financing of trips of Malayan students and businessmen to China, the charging of minimal interest for unsecured loans to favored individuals, and the relaying home of economic, political and military information...
...Costello was not the only big shot who pooh-poohed the idea that bookies could be reached by law. The committee heard the same line from St. Louis' bland, bankerish James J. Carroll, the Mr. Big of betting, who announces winter book odds on the Kentucky Derby, and "lays off" (in effect, reinsures) all kinds of bets with gamblers across the nation. When he was asked what a bookie needed to operate, beyond the racing wire, he answered with one word: "Money...