Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swung into its second week. Closed for the first time in 40 years was the Royal Poinciana, world's largest wooden hotel. The Breakers did a nice business at $26 a day. More shops were opened than at any time since 1929, but Best, Macy, Jay-Thorpe, Bonwit Teller failed to resume branches. Bradley's gambling hall was running full blast. One gamester was reported losing $170,000 one night, recouping it with $5,000 profit the next. Only two private palaces on Ocean Boulevard failed to reopen, those of the late James P. Donahue, husband of Jessie...
...railing, brandished a .38 calibre revolver and shouted at the top of his lungs: "I demand 20 minutes to address the House. Whoever tries to stop me will die. Is that understood? I want to be heard." Twenty feet below on the floor the House was taking a teller vote on a minor appropriation amendment. At the gallery gunner's outcry the hundred members present were seized with honest panic. Most of them sprinted for the safety of the cloakrooms. Others ducked under tables. A few sat petrified in their seats. One Representative who did not lose his head...
...teller vote of 245-40-121 the House ordered a second to the Rainey motion...
...yards from the New York Stock Exchange and the little grey banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co., is Continental Bank & Trust Co. of New York. One busy day last week a bold thief strolled into Continental Bank and purloined $500,000 in Government bonds from behind a teller's window. Police and bank officials advanced the startling theory that the thief had fished the bonds out through the grating while the teller was not looking, using a stick with chewing...
...Slade Boys. He stops to recover in a Midwest village, settles down there to start a bank and a family. His small son is run over by the first train that goes through the town. His daughter grows up to look a great deal like Ann Harding, marries a teller in the bank. The teller shoots himself on the day that 1) his son is born. 2) the bank closes its doors because he, the teller, has certified $400,000 worth of dubious checks. The son grows up to look exactly like Richard Dix. He goes to War, becomes...