Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning three editors came to see me, and we worked things out. I talked and they listened. Can you imagine how it feels to have men like that listen to reason? Did you ever hear of confidence? Did you ever hear of people accepting a man on his bond? At a meeting three weeks ago, I put out some pension checks for the first time in the history of the Teamsters. I saw old people cry. I had ladies kiss me. Can you imagine what this means? This is the satisfaction...
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, the maverick millionaire who served as a U.S. Communist Party angel for years, was secretary of the Civil Rights Congress bail fund that posted bond for a long procession of U.S. party leaders on trial for Smith Act violations...
...total agricultural equities (all assets minus all liabilities) rose by $8 billion to an all-time high of $157.3 billion. In every single category, farmers increased their net worth. Livestock values rose almost 5%, machinery 3%, household goods more than 4%. Even farmers' cash deposits, bond holdings and other investments grew bigger, in some categories as little as 0.6%, in others as much as 6%. The biggest gain was in the farmer's biggest asset: his land, whose value last year jumped $6.8 billion to a record $109.5 billion...
...kind of bigger-than-life operator that Texans instantly recognize and dearly love. Starting as a teen-age bank runner, he had become president of the Bank of Commerce, a church elder, a United Fund official, district chairman of the Boy Scouts and of a Savings Bond drive. Last week Fort Worth learned just how extraordinary Jack Hubbard's talents were. A federal grand jury indicted him on charges of willful misapplication of bank funds, false entry, conspiracy to violate national banking laws, misuse of mails and interstate telegraph wires. Possible loss to seven banks, including Fort Worth...
...week's end Fort Worth's outstanding young man was free on $11,000 bond, working as an office-supply salesman and awaiting trial...