Word: cashiering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proper fibres to cut. This meant that henceforth a victim of Ménière's Disease can walk out of Johns Hopkins Hospital with the greatest of assurance and dignity. He can enjoy hearing the clicking of his heels in the corridors and the voice of the cashier telling him how big his bill...
Both brothers, now in their sixties, married but childless, began their careers in their father's red-fronted Great American Tea Co. on Vesey Street, Manhattan. Brother George at 15 was cashier, personally counting by hand every dollar of the daily receipts of what was then a vast chain of 100 tea stores. Brother John, seven years younger, joined the firm at 16. They and their father ran the business until 1917 when the eldest Hartford died. In 1912 they had 400 stores, but that was only a beginning. In that year John & George decided to found a cash...
...public. Brother George is not heard of or recognized at all. He sits in his bare office in Manhattan's Graybar Building and tends as strictly and shrewdly to A. & P. finances as he did when, as a plump boy of 15, he counted A. & P. money in the cashier's cage on Vesey Street. In his homely way he decided that things were going too fast in the 20s. In 1927, he put his heavy foot down and ordered A. & P. to make no leases for over one year ahead. That policy saved his company millions of dollars...
...unalterably opposed to President Mendieta and Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez, walked inconspicuously down the steps of the City Hall and away as if to lunch. Quarter of an hour later police in the corridors heard cries from the Treasury vault, rushed in to open it. Out popped the City cashier and three assistants with a tall tale...
...grabbed $150,000 in U. S. money, ignored 1,000,000 in Cuban silver, shut them in the vault. To prove their story they demonstrated that the money had vanished. But the police had seen no suspicious characters coming or going. Mayor Gomez ordered the arrest of Treasurer Curtis, cashier, assistants...