Word: bankbooks
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When the guest list began to press 300, Mr. Banks could see the handwriting on his bankbook. He took his daughter aside, said hoarsely: "I'll give you and Buckley fifteen hundred dollars to elope." She thought he was kidding...
...Atlanta liquor dealer labored over his return, locked it away overnight in the safe with his bankbook and ledgers. Next morning the safe was gone. Thieves had taken $1,400 in cash and all his records. Worst of all, the liquor dealer had to make out another return...
Find. In San Francisco, a county official hunted in a home for the will of a stenographer who was believed to have died penniless. He found a secret panel, slid it open, put his hand into a rattrap. Under the trap: jewelry, papers, a bankbook with deposits...
William Selden Miles, 78, a jovial little Negro, is captain in charge of the cardroom café at Manhattan's arch-Republican Union League Club. Last week, in behalf of the Club he has served for 60 years, Banker James Herbert Case handed Miles a bankbook containing $600 in deposits...
...vote by proxy. Return on his stock, which usually costs from $5 to $25 per share, is limited usually to 5% or 6%. The store sells at prevailing prices, strictly for cash. A record of each member's purchases is kept, sometimes in a little book like a bankbook carried by the member. If the co-op is successful, a periodic "dividend" from the "profits" is paid in proportion to patronage. Thus a member might buy $100 worth of goods in a year, get back $10 as a rebate...