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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ordeal of Mr. Banks | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T-Day Dawns | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Democrat, He | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Co-Ops | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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