Word: cashiering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before receipt of this letter from England, TIME had been faithfully corrected by 62 eagle-eyed U. S. geographers.-ED. Pop Corn, Cashier, Governor Sirs: Your issue of Dec. 1 carries a TIMEworthy account of the recent election-accurate and to the point. Except perversely enough your illustration was the likeness of Frank ("Chief") Haucke and not that of Governor-elect Woodring. Also Elk City, Kans. rather than Neodesha, Kans. [about ten miles away] was the Woodring birthplace. His early activities with a pop corn stand attracted the attention of the Elk City banker which resulted in young Woodring...
...dances. Democrat Woodring made known that he was an expert crocheter. Political enemies even went so far as to claim he once won a county crocheting prize. His history: born in Neodesha, Kan., into a family of several sisters, served in the War, became a Neodesha bank cashier, resigned to run for the governorship...
...over his radio he cried: "Let's pasture the goats on the State House lawn!" and came within, a few thousand votes of doing it. Although his adherents had to write his name in on the ballot, he received 188,339 votes, only 28,862 less than Cashier Woodring...
Guilty Bankers. In Montgomery, Ala. last week Emmett A. Cox and Charles F. Fincher, president and cashier of First National Bank of Tallahassee, closed last February, were sentenced to four years imprisonment. Their crime: embezzling...
Often likened to Napoleon, Northcliffe came to fancy the likeness. During his last few years he grew more & more dictatorial, capricious, megalomaniac. Suspicious, he fancied the Daily Mail office was becoming a "family party." He found "someone in the Cashier's Department is a relation of a man in another department, and there are many such cases. The office is a honeycomb of relations end relationships." Dissatisfied with his Advertising Department, he suddenly promoted the Daily Mail hall porter, one Glover, to be its head. He defended his action in a remarkable memorandum: "He [Northcliffe] had long consultations with...