Word: cashiering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valuable than stocks or bonds and his idealistic viewpoint only indirectly damages his financial standing. Devoted to the interests of his depositors, he breaks an engagement with his wife (Kay Johnson) to attend to a business deal in Philadelphia. This enables her to visit the apartment of his head cashier (Gavin Gordon), who has been dipping his fingers in the till...
...assistant cashier (Pat O'Brien) finds her there but gallantly says nothing about it, even when suspected of having assisted in a robbery of his department which occurred at the time of his call. Finally he is exonerated but not until after the big scene, a scene which is pertinent, exciting and brilliantly directed by Frank Capra. A bank telephone operator tells another operator about the robbery. A third operator tells someone else. Presently shop-keepers are whispering the details to their customers. One depositor warns another: the amount of the peculations jumps from...
...Philadelphia, two men appeared at a subway change booth, told Night Cashier Bessie Liddell they had come "from the office" to spray the booth against mosquitoes. One of the men divided the booth with a sheet so that she would not get sprayed. When Bessie Liddell peeped around the sheet, the two men and seven bags containing the day's receipts of $700 were gone...
...Lansing, Ill., two men entered the Oak Glen Trust & Savings Bank. One was calm, swart, carried a machinegun. The other, nervous, blond, dapper, carried a pistol. The nervous blond was too embarrassed to take money from the cashier's drawer. Said his colleague: "Open the drawer, you lug." Later the blond's gun-hand shook so violently the gun discharged, the bullet going into the floor. Shouted his colleague, no longer calm: "You heat head, put that gun away before you shoot yourself." Said the blond, calmer now: "Quit picking on me. I'm doing the best...
...Certainly, sir," beamed the Civic Cashier. "There is your money!" It consisted of 28 sacks of "golden" coins weighing in all nearly a ton. Grumbling, the contractor took his money, carted it away in a motor truck...