Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sell tea & spices to farm wives, changed the company's name to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Partner Gilman soon sold out and retired on his profits, but Hartford plugged on. By 1880, when his plump, 16-year-old son George quit school to become his cashier, he had 100 stores...
Touchy moviemen sent an angry protest to RCA President Frank Folsom about a skit by TV Comics Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on the Colgate Comedy Hour (NBC-TV). The skit, showing a theater owner literally dragging patrons off the sidewalks and a cashier baiting passers-by in a low-cut evening gown, had "done serious damage to the industry." The moviemen asked RCA to "take steps immediately to see that this scene is not repeated on other stations." Martin & Lewis quickly apologized...
Jack of All Trades. Jones, born on a farm near Webb City, Mo., started at the bottom. At 21, he quit Vanderbilt University to take a $45-a-month job as "cashier, bookkeeper, janitor and meter repairman" for Doherty's Webb City & Carterville Gas Co. A self-taught wizard with figures, he moved up to auditor and treasurer of Doherty's electric company at Joplin, Mo. When he went to Manhattan that year for a company meeting, Jones's knowledge of budgeting so impressed Frank Frueauff, Doherty's partner, that Jones was made Frueauff...
Farmer Ralph Waldo Moore pondered these words for the best part of two years, as he mended his fences, planted and reaped his crops. Then one day he walked into the Waldron State Bank and handed over to Cashier Virgil Roberts a check for $580. "This is for the church, Virgil," he said. "I want to start tithing...
...sick, lonely, ghostlike Hugo evaded them. He never passed a bill to a trained cashier. To make his transactions quick, he never bought an article which was not within easy reach of a clerk's hand. For twelve years-one of the longest chases in Secret Service history-he seldom stopped traveling...