Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Charles O'Brien of Peoria, Mayor W. O. Summerfield of East Peoria, Illinois' Representative Everett M. Dirksen and a thousand people crowded around the little Fond du Lac State Bank in East Peoria one morning last week. Inside, before the bank opened to the public, a scrawny bespectacled widow in a cotton dress marched up to a cage marked "CASH F. D. I. C. ORDERS HERE," posed for photographers. In her hand she held a check for $1,250, her life savings, which W. Kenneth Hayes behind the counter had just given her. "I don't know...
Thus for the first time did the Federal Government begin paying off depositors in a closed bank under the Federal Deposit Insurance Law. Glutted with frozen paper on city real estate and business loans, the Fond du Lac State Bank closed late last May owing 1,789 depositors $241,412. A month ago its insured deposits were turned over to FDIC when the directors failed to agree on plans for a reorganization. Ninety-nine per cent of the depositors will be paid in full. Under the Temporary Insurance Plan (guaranteeing accounts of $2,500 or less), $125.000 of the bank...
...entomologist, 10,000,000 Hippodamla convergens means so many ladybird beetles-small, black-stippled yellow inhabitants of California's high Sierras, fond of eating the eggs of the vegetable aphis (louse) which is a scourge of most truck farmers. To Robert Bogue, who is both an entomologist and a businessman, 10,000,000 Hippodamla convergens last week meant the biggest order yet received for his chief stock-in-trade...
Tall, lean, with clipped mustache, close-set eyes, Thomas Mann is dry of face and manner; his movements are almost feminine. His few intimate friends he can count on the fingers of one hand. He likes comfort, order, a settled family life. He was so fond of his dog Bashan that he wrote a biography of him (A Man-and His Dog, 1919). A slow worker, it took him two and a half years to write Budden-brooks, twelve years for The Magic Mountain, some ten years for the first part of Jacob and His Brothers. Because he is mildly...
...baked them myself. Oh yes, and the cookies, I baked those too. You see, both my father and my mother insisted all their daughters learn to cook. We were allowed in the kitchens when we were finished with our lessons, and I enjoyed cooking. King Boris is very fond of home cooked meals...