Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jayhawker (by Sinclair Lewis & Lloyd Lewis; Henry Hammond. Inc., producer). Mr. Lloyd Lewis, the historian (Myths after Lincoln; Sherman, Fighting Prophet) and Mr. Sinclair Lewis, as resourceful a story-teller as the nation has produced, have concocted between them a Civil War episode which will be found in none of the history books. They would have the audience believe that in June 1864, a Kansas Senator and a Confederate general, himself a onetime U. S. Senator, planned to have both sides declare an armistice, march united against the French interlopers in Mexico, thus put an end to fraternal bloodshed...
...Odlum was 42, mother of two sons, sprightly wife of the head of the biggest investment trust in the U. S. but still a Westerner in speech and manner. And her husband gave her a present. Hortense McQuarrie Odlum was duly elected president of Bonwit Teller, big Manhattan smartshop...
...four Depression years Mr. Odlum of necessity picked up a rag, tag & bobtail assortment of assets along with the stocks & bonds of hundreds of major U. S. corporations. Among the barge lines, furniture factories, Long Island estates, vacant lots, amusement parks and fruit ranches was Bonwit Teller. Founder Paul J. Bonwit borrowed money from Ungerleider Financial Corp. to move up Fifth Avenue from 38th Street to 56th Street in 1930. As times went from bad to worse the store fell into the hands of Ungerleider; from Ungerleider, into the hands of Mr. Odlum. Bonwit Teller differed from the other Odlum...
...Cleveland last Wednesday a Federal jury convicted J. Arthur House, president of the Guardian Trust Company, of misapplication of the bank's funds, finding him guilty on twenty-six counts. Cleveland was once very proud of Mr. House, who rose from the position of teller to a place that in one year yielded him an income of over $100,000, more than ten times the salary of the governor of the Bank of England. When his bank closed its doors early in 1933, depositors received one cent on the dollar, and have since received but twenty cents more. In Chicago...
...half-dozen gowns; 2) reporters and fashion writers; 3) manufacturers, many from the Americas, who will buy gowns as models and sell copies wholesale to every little dress shop; and, most important, 4) buy ers from big U. S. department stores, Altman, Macy, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bonwit Teller, scores of others. There is no competitive bidding between buyers and the price is the same to all couturiers who will make up any number of duplicates of a favorite model...