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...bank in the capital (resources: $29 million), but it is the oldest (est. 1809). Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were once depositors. In the War of 1812, the cashier cagily sneaked the bank's funds out of town the day the British captured the city. Later the bank lent the empty U.S. Treasury $50,000 to help rebuild the White House, which had been burned by the redcoats...
...Where had he gone? He soon answered both questions. Registered letters, mailed in Florida and stuffed with greenbacks, began arriving in New York. A Staten Island bank which had lent him money got $5,000; another got $6,000. His friends began getting money, too. FBI men learned that before leaving he had visited his parents' Staten Island cottage while they were out of town. The agents went in, found $14,975 in two envelopes, and a note, ". . . Enclosed is money . . ." Altogether, from one place and another, they recovered $76,355. Despite his expensive mode of life...
After flying down to Rio, and running a gantlet of unhurried customs men, they sprawled on curving Copacabana Beach, drank mild guarana in the cafés, and stared at the jungled hillsides, splashed with the purple bloom of the quaresma, the "tree of Lent...
...machine. The divorce seeker would punch the machine once a day for 42 days, to establish residence, then insert 200 silver dollars. As the divorce popped out of a slot, colored lights would flash, wheels spin and a jukebox would play America. ¶ Hoping to sell more pretzels during Lent, Alex V. Tisdale, president of the National Pretzel Bakers Institute, explained that the twist was originally supposed to represent arms folded in prayer...
...Cuba, carnival does not end with the first day of Lent but is celebrated on the four succeeding Sundays...