Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory to a test when Representative Rayburn moved that the House instruct its conferees to accept the "death sentence." Thereupon the House showed itself totally unimpressed by Senator Black's dirt, gave Administration hopes and prestige a mighty clout. Having originally rejected the "death sentence" on a teller vote by 216-10-146, Representatives now went on record against it by 210-10-155. Swiftly Representative Huddleston clinched his victory by getting the House (183-10-172) to authorize its conferees to exclude all outsiders from the conference. Routed, the Administration faced a clear choice between a utility bill...
...that state. Elected to the house last autumn as an avowed enemy of Power, he helped wangle a $36,000,000 works relief grant from the Democratic Administration to harness the tides below Passamaquoddy Bay in his district with a great government power dam. Yet in the House teller vote on the Public Utility Bill's so-called "death sentence" (TIME, July 8), Representative Brewster sided with Power, against the President. That startling inconsistency left the man from Maine with a great deal of explaining...
...House to offer his explanation to colleagues already tense with excitement over rumors of undue White House pressure in behalf of the "death sentence.'' His voice throbbing with righteous indignation; Representative Brewster bluntly declared that Presidential Agent Thomas G. Corcoran had approached him just before the teller vote, threatened to stop construction on Passamaquoddy Dam unless he voted for the "death sentence." Inference was that his prompt vote against it had been a righteous protest against such a flagrantly unrighteous threat...
...shining exception among Author Lewis' labored tales is his brilliant The Willow Walk, a first-rate story in any company. A small-town bank teller with a talent for dramatics wanted to commit a perfect crime, and did. He constructed the myth of his twin brother, John, hermit and religious fanatic, often posed as John to get the story believed. Then he stole $97,000, put on the character and clothing of fictitious John, waited for the search to die down. For 18 months he lived and prayed and slept as John, found himself becoming John. In desperation...
...advice to women.* It was not going to conduct a woman's lobby in Washington, at least for the present. But it was going after membership. Proof of this fact was the Organizing Committee whose most prominent member is Mrs. Hortense Odium, president of Manhattan's Bonwit, Teller & Co. (clothes), wife of Investment Truster Floyd B. Odium of Atlas Corp. Legal counsellor is Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield, New York attorney and onetime suffragette. National Director is Radio Lecturer Cathrine Curtis who claims she first decided to educate women investors when she overheard a dowager exclaim at a party...