Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real-estate man (now dead) had approached him four years ago on behalf of two "Ohio businessmen," H. A. McDevitt and J. H. McKeown, and offered $254,000 for 540 shares of the bank's 750 shares of stock. He had accepted, and Schlekat, although only an assistant cashier at the time, had been elected president by the new stockholders...
...aluminum will be needed in the next quarter. The Defense Production Administration* will make sure that the manufacturers will get what they need for defense by earmarking the metals for them. Instead of priorities, which were merely "hunting licenses" for scarce materials, manufacturers will get what Fleischmann calls "cashier's checks" to draw the metal they need from the set-aside supply. The present cuts in steel, zinc, copper, etc. for civilian producers (TiME, March 5) will be continued, may even be deepened when CMP is in effect...
...assistant cashier in a New Jersey bank, arrested last January for embezzling $9,000 from his till, had a shocking story to tell. He was a sober, hard-working family man, a devoted husband, father of six children. He told authorities he had taken the money to buy cortisone for his wife, who had suffered for years from crippling arthritis. The drug had made a new woman of her. While the dosage continued, she was free of pain, able to leave her bed and care for her children. But the cost was great-close...
...cashier's indictment for theft was not pressed. Last week he had a new job (washing cars in a Newark garage), but his wife was back in bed again. There was virtually no cortisone to be found, at any price, for her treatment...
Throughout the nation there were other arthritis sufferers in the same fix as the cashier's wife. Since the hormone was first placed on the market about four months ago, many have come to depend on it as the best source of relief for their agonies. Its virtue for the arthritic lies in continued doses, yet drugstores are stacking up piles of prescriptions for cortisone in their files and giving the customer vague promises. A Long Island druggist nostalgically recalls filling an order of 20 vials of cortisone two months ago with no trouble. Now he has none...