Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston last week a spinster poured out a bag of walnuts on a bank counter. A teller smashed them open, found in each pair of neatly glued shells a $5 gold-piece. In Waukesha, Wis., an elderly woman passed a handful of gold-pieces to a bank teller. "They're good," she said. "That's just a little mildew on them. I kept them in a bottle hanging by a string in my well." In Manhattan all one evening the dark cavern of Maiden Lane echoed with unaccustomed footsteps as one after another, clerks, stenographers, women in shawls...
...bank teller in Boston cracked open some walnuts and found what...
...turn of the century the late Cyrus Hall McCormick was looking for a cashier for his reaper company. He sent an emissary to fetch George Ranney, 24, a teller in the Chicago branch of the Bank of Montreal. Said young Ranney: "If Mr. McCormick wants to see me. let him come over to the bank." So the great Cyrus, in his sideburns and full dignity, marched into the bank and took Teller Ranney away with him. In time Mr. Ranney became Harvester's financial expert, was given credit for Harvester's lucid financial statements, became (and still...
JACOB WASSERMAN again demonstrates his ability as a story-teller in his latest volume of Jewish Lore. The Dark Pilgrimage (Liveright, $2.50). His account of the re-incarnation of a 17th century prophet who had betrayed his people is one that will prove fascinating, as well as instructive. Four stars for this, and it's a grand gift selection...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assigns regularly to nature stories or, by analogy, pictures with leading men like Johnny Weissmuller or Max Baer. For Eskimo, he and a staff of 42 assistants including Chef Emile Ottinger of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel spent $1.500,000 and nine months on location at Teller, Alaska, 100 mi. below the Arctic Circle. Less courageous than they appear to be in the picture, the Eskimo extras whom Van Dyke hired at $5 per day ran away after seeing their first cinema. It showed a fight and they thought that if Director Van Dyke had been...