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...nation's most impoverished areas in the Great Depression. His father, a land-poor, dirt-poor migrant farmer, went as far north as Canada to harvest crops. From the age of five, Harris accompanied him. To Harris, a bank was "more than a place to deposit and borrow money; it was almost a kind of religious institution." His father "was a different man, it seemed to me, when he went to the bank. He took his hat off the minute he walked through the door." Whenever Harris and his chums spotted a shooting star, they yelled "Money!" three times...
...against the radical grain; and there was much talk of decentralization. Fortunately this did not happen. Just as you do not get rid of the need for the British Museum reading room by multiplying local libraries, so the necessity for the Metropolitan remains: a place where a very large deposit of cultural evidence can be inspected and compared in depth at the best possible level of aesthetic quality. The role of such a collection is to defend us against one of the great American vices-provincialism in time. And so-floreat! · Rober Hughes
...leads them to break down the exclusive nature of the church and its right to decide who can be a member. Possibly quotas should be applied to church membership? The church must be a responsible member of its host society, but not at the sacrifice of her integrity and deposit of truth...
...depositions taken so far are much more serious. They reveal that Gulf carefully designed a dummy company in Nassau first to "launder" and then to relay money to strategically placed politicians. This Bahamas Exploration Co., Ltd. may well have passed out $5 million in the U.S. alone. The main job of one of its former officers, William C. Viglia, seems to have been to deposit Gulf money in a Bahamian bank, withdraw it and then run the cash back to Claude Wild in Washington...
...nation's 4,700 national banks hold New York City bonds equal to 40% or more of their capital. Nine of them would probably become insolvent and have to merge with other banks, and 44 could get by with long-term loans from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or the Federal Reserve System. Other Government studies found that 62 of the 9,964 state-chartered banks surveyed hold New York City obligations equal to 50% or more of their capital and would be kept afloat in the same manner as the national banks...