Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lending Agency would consolidate ten independents: RFC, Disaster Loan Corp, RFC Mortgage Co., Federal National Mortgage Association, Electric Home & Farm Authority, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Home Owners' Loan Corp., Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp., Federal Housing Administration, Export-Import Bank of Washington...
...incident occurred during a Mussolini speech to the pick of his Blackshirts, assembled in Rome from all over Italy's knee, shin, heel and toe. The Blackshirts were on a jaunt. All expenses to and from Rome had been paid. In their pockets were fine crisp bank notes, "prizes" for Fascist merits, ranging from 500 to 2,000 lire. All this conspired to confuse them when Il Duce rhetorically touched on the subject of self-sacrifice. Confidently expecting a negative answer, he threw back his head and bellowed: "Do you want riches? Do you want glory? Do you want...
...puppet secretary of the city's Japanese-controlled Police Bureau, Dr. Hsi Shih-tai, was assassinated as he walked in the street with his wife. This was the 17th political murder in Shanghai since January 1. In Tientsin the Chinese manager of the Japanese-owned Federal Reserve Bank was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. In Kaifeng, Chinese mercenary troops hired by the Japanese mutinied and murdered four puppet officials. All Japanese reports said: "Apparently something happened in Kaifeng...
...Allied pursuit through Belgium, Luxemburg, Alsace-Lorraine penetrated Germany to the left bank of the Rhine and 30 kilometers beyond the bridgeheads at Mainz, Coblentz, Cologne. By the terms of the Armistice, Germany delivered 5,000 locomotives, 150,000 railroad cars, 5,000 trucks to the Allies, and U. S. General Tasker Bliss, astute observer, antimilitarist general, feared the sort of peace that generals and politicians would dictate...
...Bishop National Bank of Honolulu consulted him about becoming its president, and George Rea thought that would be fine. In seven years he built Bishop's assets from 30 to 50 millions, enjoyed himself no end with golf, surfriding and singing in a barber-shop quartet. He resigned last December, took his wife on a long vacation in the Orient and the Philippines. Last week he landed in San Francisco, received a telephone call from one of the Curb Exchange's Silent Five, rushed to Manhattan and landed...