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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they never met till they were grownup. Shaw's father was a genteel but scandalous drunkard. With the Shaws for many years lived, innocently but unconventionally, a singing teacher, George John Vandaleur Lee. To help the family impecuniosity Shaw went to work at 15, rose to be a cashier before he decided to seek his literary fortune in London. Painfully shy, Shaw's eyes would fill with tears "at the slightest rebuff." First thing he did in the British Museum was read all the books on etiquet. For nine years he wrote unwanted novels and was a complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frank Harris, Frank Shaw | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Three drawings in the magazine The New Yorker, showing a baby in a pen, a clerk in a cashier's cage, and a prisoner behind the bars were responsible for the introduction of cartoons into a psychology course of Dr. F. L. Wells, instructor of Experimental Psychopathology, it was learned yesterday in an interview at the Psychopathic Hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Psychology Professor Finds That Cartoons Illustrate Many Causes of Neurosis--To Use Magazine Pictures in Lectures | 11/25/1931 | See Source »

...Paris after the War one Louis Moyses, a demobilized soldier, tried his luck in the cafe business. Soldier Moyses had no money, no notion of attracting a smart clientele. He had a sister who, he figured, could be a cashier, a half-brother who could be waiter, a soldier-friend who played the piano. He assembled a few tables and chairs in a room near the Madeleine. With his last few francs he sent out to an epicene for a bottle of cognac and a bottle of whiskey. A third bottle he filled with colored water, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cafe Music | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Died. William Henry Williams, 57, board chairman and president of the Wabash Railroad, director of 70 major corporations; of heart disease; in St. Louis. He devoted his life to railroading from the time he was 16 years old and took his first job as cashier in a Pennsylvania Railroad freight office in Toledo. Working for many railroads, he rose rapidly and in 1915 became board chairman of Wabash. In 1924 he became board chairman of Missouri Pacific, was ousted in 1930 by the Brothers Van Sweringen. Close associate of Leonor Fresnel Loree in his plans to build a fifth great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...chairman (who succeeds Edward James Nolan) is Lynn Porter Talley, known to his profession as "a hard-boiled banker," one who has never let enthusiasm replace collateral, Texas-born (in 1881), he became a teller in a Dallas bank in 1901. In 1911 he was cashier of Lumberman's National Bank (now Second National) of Houston. Four years later he was cashier in Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, of which he was in 1925 made Governor. It is this position which portly, bespectacled, serious-faced Banker Talley resigns to bring "hardboiled banking" to Bank of America, probably the biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Transamerica Unscrambled | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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