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...moved from its Wall Street offices to temporary quarters in the open country (now Greenwich Village), then back to Wall Street. During the depression of 1907, a new customer rushed in with cash withdrawn from other banks and nervously asked if his money would be safe. The cashier merely nodded towards the plaque of Hamilton on the wall. "I judge you've been through several panics," said the customer-and deposited more than $1,000,000. The trust was well placed; the bank has paid a dividend every year except in panic-stricken 1837 when dividends were banned...
...come into her life, she said, in 1944 when she was 26. She was a Baptist farmer's daughter who had been married, divorced, and had a job as cashier of a Birmingham hotel. Big Jim was 36, a widower with two small daughters. He had been around the world as a merchant seaman, had gone briefly to college, had served a short wartime hitch in the Army. When he met Christine he was a salesman for a burial-insurance company...
...vault while, behind his back, a hand reaching through the window grabbed a stack of banknotes from a table. "While you're busy saving pennies you're losing dollars," read the ad. On page 14 the Miscellany department carried the following item: "In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched...
Business in all sections of the Coop was reported above last year. No one department is doing noticably better than the others, with the exception of the check-cashier's window...
...listed on the books as a vice president at $18,600 a year, but got an actual salary of $25 a week. The kickback to the general of the difference between the real and fictitious salaries also got to be a problem. At first it was handled in cashier's checks, but they were too easily traced. Then it was paid in $1,000 bills-but soon the Treasury began eying all big bills suspiciously. Then it was transferred in smaller bills...