Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back for his fourth summer conference session was Adam Lockhart, cashier of the Bank of Wadesboro in North Carolina's cotton-growing Anson County. Said he "We get angles (at the conference) we never have thought of out in the country. It's hard to keep a small country bank up to date." In full agreement was mountainous (6 ft. 5) Cashier Walter Martin Matthews of the Farmers Bank of Pilot Mountain, N. C., in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His testimonial to the course: "Last year I got an idea which has saved...
Coaxed out of retirement by another New Englander, William Sargent Ladd, Asahel I, at 44, went into the banking business with him and one employe, a cashier. First day Ladd & Bush took in $1,450 deposits, made nine loans on which they collected $221.17 interest (12%) in advance. The bank quoted U. S. Government bonds below par, handled currency only at a discount. At day's end its balance sheet listed $51,450 assets & liabilities. That year the first transcontinental railroad came through...
...liked it. Two months ago, the folk of Ava began to think they could hear the wings of an angel over their town. First, Mrs. E. E. Lawson, whose husband was formerly a storekeeper, now runs a filling station in Ava, got a mysterious letter. It was a cashier's check for $100 with a note attached, which read: ''With the compliments of an oldtime friend." Pleased but puzzled, she wrote the Bank of Union, Mo., on which the check was drawn, to see whether they knew who had sent it. Their description...
...weeks later, Jack Blair, who also had run a store in Ava, got a cashier's check for $100 in his mail. Soon two more checks came for two other ex-merchants of Ava: $100 for Brush Judd, $150 for Luther Story. Mr. Story did not have his glasses on when his letter came, thought at first the check was an advertising coupon and started to throw it away. In the same strange manner, a $100 check came for Mrs. Grace Singleton, whose husband died last June. Widow Singleton used the money to pay off a note...
Into a San Francisco barbershop marched Herbert Hoover's friend & aide Ben Shannon Allen, cried: "Have to have a haircut before noon. I'm in a hurry." Said The Customer Ahead of him: "You can have my place." "Do you know who that was?" asked the cashier as Allen paid his bill. "He looks familiar," said Allen. Said the cashier: "He is Harold Ickes...