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Word: cashier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached the ending of the original story, the TV play still had 41 minutes to go. Scenes minced on and off screen without coming to terms with the story or adding to its significance: a cop with a TV announcer's hairdo trying to lead a lady cashier into adultery, the problems of ambitious adolescents who want too much too soon, a priest who unknowingly gives the fighter's address to the killers. It all had the sound of wooden cymbals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Killers Done to Death | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Bold Face. In Stockton, Calif., Teodoro Lopez Herrera held up a bank, was asked by the cashier to sign his name for the money he took, dutifully obeyed, was soon tracked down and arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Convicted on a forgery charge in his native Italy, Grassi started commuting to Paris in 1955, lived in style and passed himself off as a "director of Fiat." His connections seemed to impress George Allen, the modestly salaried chief cashier of American Express in Paris. Allen, who comes from Philadelphia, was a model of American-in-Paris respectability, living in a plainly furnished apartment, his biggest extravagance a Sunday picnic in Fontainebleau forest with his wife and two little girls, after passing the plate at Sunday morning services at the American Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Cashier & the Con Man | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Another who shuddered, at reading the item, was Cashier Allen. In alarm, he phoned Grassi and asked him to return the money. When Grassi could fork up only $50,000 of it, Allen worried for three weeks, finally confessed to American Express officials, and then to the police. Had Allen given Grassi the money to speculate on promise of a share of the profit? The hapless Allen would only say, "I had no idea he was a gambler . . . He lived at the Georges V Hotel. How could I have any suspicion that he wasn't honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Cashier & the Con Man | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Policy Advice. In Detroit, when he was unable to find the cashier at the Quaker City Life Insurance Co.. a robber interrupted a meeting of insurance agents to get proper directions, then made off with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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