Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan and the Broadway stage. But things were too much for her. Her worthless father died and Deena's hard-won savings went to pay for the funeral. She settled rebelliously down in Micmac, went back to work to get more money. When she met young Larry, bank teller in the local cathedral of commerce, the weather seemed a little brighter. Larry was a steady young fellow but those were boom days: the funny business that his superior banksters were involved in finally dragged him in too. When the boom broke and the bank was caught in the rush...
...threat when he said: "It is easy to say 'no,' and if that is the program and we want the Government to do our banking, what is to become of our high-priced bank talent? The office boy can say 'no' and the note teller can collect the notes if they are good...
...Austrian Composer Franz Lehar's nostalgic score.* Most of last week's socialite audience came in period costume, the women in Floradora dresses, the men in early 20th Century costume. To prepare their setting for a fancy dress ball they had taken over Central City's Teller House, next door to the Opera House, restored its grandeur of 1873 when President Grant stepped into it on silver paving slabs. The presidential suite was last week a museum, complete with President Grant's huge mahogany bed. The ballroom was readied for a fancy dress ball after...
...time of the theft police advanced the theory that the sneak thief had used a stick tipped with chewing gum to lift the bonds from behind the teller's window. William J. Burns Detective Agency believe that he might have wheedled from a runner or other company employe the exact time that the bonds would be delivered, arranged to have a crony telephone the teller when he crooked a finger. The telephone would distract the teller for a split-second, and a split-second is all a smart thief needs. Once the thief had the bonds they probably passed...
...disappearance of Morgan N. Buckalew, teller of the Farmers National Bank of Allentown, N. J. who absconded with $55,000 in cash and Liberty Bonds last September and whose wife anonymously appealed to him to return through TIME'S Letters columns (TIME, Nov. 14): his arrest, unrepentant, in Los Angeles. The whereabouts of Absconder Buckalew, junketing with another woman, was discovered through his subscription to the Trenton (N. J.) Times...