CCS wrote:
> Thirty years ago you could walk into a Savings and Loan in the US
> and open a passbook account. They might have asked for a name but
> that was just for convenience and it didn't matter. No ID was
> requested or needed. Possession of the passbook was ownership of
> the account; that was what mattered. That the cash depositied came
> from your hand established prima-face that it was yours.
I remember that too. A *bearer* passbook. That was in the late
fifties and sixties that I remember. Socialist America (big
brother) started under Roosevelt in the thirties.
The government has come a long way in pressuring and forcing
businesses in general let alone banks to act as their agents
since then.
Bob
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