Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Individual employers dismissed 30,000 strikers next day. Some 700,000 others were temporarily locked out. But the Daladier Government announced a policy of "appeasement," discouraged reprisals. However, the Premier immediately crossed Leader Jouhaux's name from the directorate of the Bank of France and several railway union leaders were booted from the National Railway Board. This was followed by a flurry of sympathy strikes. At Le Havre the 1,500 crew members of the Normandie were discharged when they refused to sail the liner out of port on schedule. Reservations on the Normandie, including that of Anthony Eden...
...stationmaster. After the War, he and a certain Mussolini were known as two of the several "Fathers of Fascism." Of the five Secretaries-General which the Party has had (1923-38), Farinacci was the second (1924-26). He was kicked out after getting mixed up in the Cremona bank scandals, resumed editorship in Cremona of his newspaper Il Regime Fascista (The Fascist Regime...
...central figure, a rock-chinned, canny young Scottish giant named Alex MacTay, has the makings of a poet, but instead goes to the U. S. to make a fortune. The year is 1890. On a farm in western Pennsylvania he schemes a partnership in a sidehill coal "bank," marries the farmer's pretty daughter, a schoolteacher, stamps out the last of his poetic impulses. At 34 he owns two big coal mines, is worth a million...
Democracy in the Making, by Hugh Russell Fraser (Bobbs-Merrill, $3.50), is history written with journalistic liveliness. It pictures in swift chapters the fight of Jackson and Tyler against the United States Bank. Packed with savory local color, Democracy in the Making makes the Jackson-Tyler era seem closer at hand than the Harding administration. Typical nugget of unfamiliar information: In 1837, during the Canadian rebellion. Englishmen seized the U. S.-owned Caroline on Lake Erie, killed the crew, sent the ship over Niagara Falls...
...provided. In comparison to the housing all other problems were easy; the scarcity of available halls--and the rents charged for them--were appalling. Then, after weeks of search, when a satisfactory location had finally been found and the lease was about to be signed, the Cambridge Savings Bank, for no apparent reason, suddenly backed down. Possibly local restaurant interests were not unconnected with this decision...