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Article: Necesita Hablar Espanol?: Just How Dominant Will Spanish Become In U.S.?
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- Credit Union Journal
- Article date:
- April 4, 2005
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EL PASO, Texas -- When the first credit union in the United States opened its doors in the early 20th century, it was known to its primarily French-speaking members as La Caisse Populaire-Sainte Marie.
Today, the only vestige of its founding at the Manchester, N.H. credit union is the English translation of its name, St. Mary's Bank. The textile mills and French-speaking Canadian immigrant workers have mostly disappeared into the melting pot of America as have so many other ethnic groups that also had their own credit unions-Russians, Italians, Lithuanians-where they did business in their own languages.
As will be readily apparent when the Texas league ...