Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit from the Export-Import Bank to pay off by June 28, 1941 outstanding indebtedness to U. S. exporters, an estimated additional $50,000,000 credit to be available for future exports...
...gold (subject to Congress' approval) to establish a central reserve bank and a currency tied to the dollar, to protect importers & exporters from exchange fluctuations...
...bitterly fought "war-within-a-war" centred in Madrid and for it General Franco's troops in the nearby trenches had grandstand seats. One of the hardest-fought engagements between the Loyalist factions took place near the old Royal Palace, in West Madrid on the high bank of the Manzanares River within plain view of some ten miles of Franco entrenchments. The Communist stronghold was in the partly completed Government buildings on the old race-track course in northeastern Madrid, less than two miles from the Franco trenches in University City. At one time the Communist revolters surged down...
...last fortnight Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of University of California, received a telephone call from his friend Mortimer Fleishhacker, a regent of the university and board chairman of the potent Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. He had heard, said Fleishhacker, that an unnamed bank had offered Dr. Sproul a job. "Will you take the presidency of Anglo California," asked Mr. Fleishhacker, "at $50,000 a year...
...vice president at 34 and its youngest president at 39, nine years ago, had political aspirations, had been mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for Governor or U. S. Senator, even bigger jobs. Would a university presidency be a springier board for a political leap than a bank presidency...