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Word: bankes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Assistance to a bank in which Flood owned stock. A Mountain Top, Pa., real estate development called Crestwood Hills ran into financial difficulties in 1974: then it became part of a Luzerne County housing project subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and was able to make some of its payments on a $3 million mortgage issued by the First Valley Bank, in which Flood owns stock. Investigators are exploring a possible conflict of interest in Flood's dealings with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Opening the Floodgate | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...searched her estate, as well as a farm in Illinois and a summer home in Ohio that she had inherited from her husband. "We have no evidence of murder," says Glen view Police Chief William Bartlett. Still, since Mrs. Brach has made no use of her credit cards or bank accounts, police assume she is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Case of the Missing Widow | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Police have questioned Matlick about eleven checks that cleared her bank account after she disappeared, including one for $3,000 that was made out to him. The checks were not signed in Mrs. Brach's normal handwriting. Matlick told police that her hand had been hurt when a trunk lid fell on it, and she could only scrawl. Oddest of all, Matlick failed for nearly two weeks to report that Mrs. Brach was missing. During that time, he says, he summoned her brother Charles Vorhees, a retired railroad worker, to the estate, where they burned two of Mrs. Brach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Case of the Missing Widow | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...assertion, "The bearer is abroad on a diplomatic assignment for the Government of the United States of America." As it happens. Lance's most recent missions abroad, including a trip to London and the Middle East to help Arab interests angling for control of a $2.2 billion bank holding company in the Washington, D.C., area, have been clearly undiplomatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Agent X-000065 | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...Master) goes a long way towards capturing the purpose and theme of this film that dazzled the critics at last year's Cannes Film Festival. A portrait-type shot encompasses the entire family of a Sardinian peasant, Efisio Ledda (Omero Antonutti), seated in the waiting room of a local bank. Compelled to sell his recently inherited farmland in the face of low olive prices and a disastrous winter, the paterfamilias informs his two sons and two daughters of the plans he has drawn up for each of them--marriage, working for the family, and the like--while he awaits...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: The Sum of the Parts... | 3/4/1978 | See Source »

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