Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Czechoslovak Communists staged their Prague rally on a tiny island in the Vltava. So many thousands went that people who found no room on the island stood in overflow masses on each bank. In ringing tones No. 1 Czechoslovak Communist Klement Gottwald denounced "Swastika Imperialism!" and quite ignored the fact that Czechoslovak Reds were once sworn foes of the Republic. "We will defend our Republic until the last!" keynoted Comrade Gottwald. "You may all be sure that you will never see the Swastika banner waving above Hradcany Castle...
Reason for this optimism was that, after weeks of excruciatingly slow progress by naval and land forces up the valley of the broad, brown Yangtze, Japanese troops suddenly knifed through stubborn Chinese defense lines and penetrated to Wusueh, on the north bank of the Yangtze, only 80 crow miles from their goal. In Hankow, Chinese military heads, preparing for a last-ditch stand, ordered evacuation of 20,000 women to facilitate defense of the area, and by week's end 1,000 of them were on their way to Chungking, China's inland capital, 500 miles inland from...
...comment of Garnett C. Skinner last July when a Chicago judge awarded Prima Co., one of five Chicago breweries that survived Prohibition, $568,895 damages because its business had allegedly been run into the ground (TIME, July 26). The damages were against two of Chicago's big banks, First National and Harris Trust & Savings. They had lent Prima Co. a considerable sum,'had become alarmed about their loans, so the Harris Bank suggested that Garnett C. Skinner (a onetime Hearst advertising supervisor) be put in charge of the brewery to revitalize it. During his regime Prima sales dropped...
...take his wife home to live with his parents, go to work in his father's bank. After a year of that, Connie left him for good...
Last half of the story shows Jerry, 20 years later, now head of the bank, long since dutifully married to a good, dull wife. Determined that his five children shall have the things he missed-a decent allowance and tolerant understanding-he successfully conceals his shock when they get drunk, when his oldest son confesses to having a mistress. With heroic effort he swallows his chagrin when his favorite daughter goes off to Hollywood, returns pregnant but unmarried. But when two of his children confess they are Reds...