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...boys. Of these, rotund George William served as president until 1894. Benign Son Edwin Franklin then took over. To needy folk, Son Edwin would give bits of paper with "$10 - E.F.A." scribbled across them. These informal checks were always good for face value with the Sun's cashier. In the 1880's and 90's, the Sun tackled the Maryland Democratic political machine in a running fight...
Twinkling with discreet mystery was Cornell University's retiring President Livingston Farrand last week, as he told the press about one L. H. Anon. Eight years ago, said President Farrand, he found in his mail a cashier's check for $20,000. It was accompanied by a letter signed L. H. Anon, explaining that Cornell might use the money as it saw fit but warning President Farrand not to inquire into the donor's identity. Cornell cashed the check. Next year President Farrand got another...
...Anon was silent for seven years until last week Dean Herman Diederichs of the College of Engineering received from him a cashier's check for $35,000. Wrote L. H. Anon to Dean Diederichs, with the nearest thing to date to a direction for his money's use: "I shall be glad to have it applied to the endowment fund of the College of Engineering, if you think that will be the most helpful place." President Farrand agreed that the hitherto unendowed College of Engineering should keep the check as a start. Said he: "I must...
...being the first play to emerge from the sub-professional Federal Theatre as a regular Broadway production. There its distinction ends, for in spite or because of extensive revision by Director Antoinette Perry (Strictly Dishonorable) and her daughter Margaret's determined impersonation of a bordello's ex-cashier who gets a pretentious politician's family in and out of several difficulties, the show struck most critics as being stereotyped, strained, spurious...
From poor beginnings, with only a grammar school training, Banker Mount worked himself up in 15 years to a president-&-cashier's job in the Oakland Bank. There Banker Giannini discovered him in 1921, plucking him out to make him head of the Oakland branch of Bank of Italy (now Bank of America, N. T. & S. A.), the Giannini bank. Impressed by this hardheaded, hard-working young man, Banker Giannini later took him to his head office in San Francisco, shortly made him big Bank of Italy's president...