Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Melvin Purvis cornered Bank Robber Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd in a farmhouse near East Liverpool, Ohio. When Floyd, armed with two .45-cal. pistols, fled across a stubbled cornfield toward the woods, Purvis and his men shot him to death. It was one of the most celebrated exploits of the G-men, forerunners of the present-day FBI agents, and enhanced Purvis' reputation as one of the country's ablest crime fighters. The story of Floyd's death stood unchallenged for almost 45 years...
...what had transpired at their eighth summit meeting in Haifa earlier this month-and perhaps to assess some troublesome new reports about Begin's health (see box). He also wanted to explore ways in which the talks on Palestinian autonomy could be propelled into "second gear" and West Bank and Gaza Strip residents could be coaxed into joining the negotiations over their political destiny. "We don't want this to end up as just an Egyptian-Israeli agreement." Strauss told TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak. :We are committed to a comprehensive peace; the issues are on the table...
Radcliffe originally considered selling the stock regardless of the price after Gardiner wrote to the president of the bank to question him on the corporation's South African policies and received an unsatisfactory response, Gardiner said last spring...
...spokesman for the Harvard treasurer's office said earlier this week Harvard has no investments in Bank of America. Harvard established a policy in April 1978 of not investing in banks that make loans to South Africa...
Kaufmann says the money will go into the Faculty's "fund for instruction," where all past surpluses have gone and which the Faculty uses to cover any deficit it might run "It is in a sense our bank account," Kaufmann says. In other words the Faculty is putting away its $223,000 for a rainy year...