Word: generous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total of $1,200,000. Set against bank capital of $807,000, the shortage brought only one answer from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.: close the bank, freeze all accounts, pay off all deposits up to the $10,000 maximum. Last week Ellenville counted the cost of its generous banker in empty stores, canceled orders and overdue bills. Business was down about 50%, and Christmas prospects looked grim, as FDIC prepared to liquidate the bank...
Happy smiles decorated every face in Ellenville except that of generous Banker Rose. Reason: as soon as his bank was closed, his $25,000 check for bail, drawn on his personal account, had bounced, and he was jailed...
Sailor on Horseback. He wrote continuously and like a madman, with the lack of self-criticism of the self-educated. Yet he was a generous man of near-genius. He had the kind of gallant foolishness that he himself perfectly summed up by describing himself as a "sailor on horseback"-a quality both lovable and exasperating. He called himself a socialist (though no known socialist state would have given him leg room). When his books did well, he built himself a thoroughly unsocialist, ranch-style castle in California's Valley of the Moon (it burned down before he could...
...Generous Aid." Beyond advocating help for the Atlantic alliance, Nixon foreshadowed a new U.S. emphasis on much broader foreign economic aid. Of the nations of the Middle East, he said: "There must be generous aid in solving their very real economic problems so that their peoples may rise from the depths of poverty and disease. In the past these nations of the Middle East used their meager resources to build up military strength. Now we have the unique opportunity to show them what can be done by using their resources to build up the health and welfare of their peoples...
...soon as word of Canada's more generous relief program reached Europe, there was a rush of refugees to the Canadian immigration office in Vienna. About 1,000 visas had been issued, at the rate of 100 applicants a day, under the government-loan scheme; the daily rate rose to 300 after the new free transportation offer was announced...