Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sidetracked. When Ike Tigrett graduated from Union University in Jackson, Tenn. in 1898 he had $800 and a desire to become a banker. In a tiny town near Jackson he rented a building, scrawled the word "Bank" on the window, and built a cashier's cage out of chicken wire. In the cage Tigrett roosted anxiously for several days until the bank's first customer entered, opened an account with a deposit...
Walk, Don't Run. In Manhattan, when fire broke out at the Charles Café, customers were herded into line, headed toward the door, passed the cashier's desk, paid their checks...
That night, on the courthouse lawn, the Fourth Term campaign was officially opened. In an introductory speech, Texas' Tom Connally cried: "The American people will not cashier the Commander-in-Chief on the field of battle." Harry Truman, standing under two huge elms, said nothing about himself, almost nothing of any 1944 Democratic program. His theme was plainly and simply: "You can't afford to take a chance. You should endorse tried and experienced leadership." He mentioned "experience" eight times in 20 minutes...
...handed Ed a $20 bill, got $17.50 in change, gave Ed a 25? tip, and doled out 15? to the shoeshine boy. The Star, with its short, old-fashioned headlines, was on the cashier's counter. The big man picked up the paper and read aloud: RED SPEED STUNS NAZIS, YANKS STRIKE IN FRANCE...
Even the town's No. i Democrat, who is also cashier of the bank, was in the crowd. So was Tom Dewey's "citified" neighbor, Commentator Lowell Thomas. Thomas introduced the Governor to the friendly small-town audience, with folksy references to Dewey gadding off to big cities like Chicago when his hay needed putting in. Thomas said he had put his own hay in that very morning, and as a neighborly turn had even pitched a little at the Dewey farm. Dewey replied, with characteristic heavy jocularity, that if so, it was the first work Lowell Thomas...