Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cornerstone of the entire Baker fortune and power is First National Bank of New York. It was organized in 1863 with Mr. Baker taking $3,000 of its $200,000 capital and becoming teller. At the age of 37 he became president. Mr. Baker's holdings grew to 22.000 shares, with a total market valuation last week of $3,300 each. (Two years ago the market-value of these same shares was nearly $200,000,000.) Since 1925 the bank has paid 100% annually in dividends. The bank always took a leading part in the Nation's industrial affairs...
Crane Years: 1858: Charles R. was born the son of self-made Richard Teller Crane, famed college-man-hater who used to dumbfound Chicago socialites by growling, "Don't mind me, I'm only a plumber...
...tale told by Ambassador Moore (peerless tale teller) shortly before his death...
...Catherine had become the mistress of egotistic young Gilbert Hunton. The Douglasses had no money, so when Gilbert thought of settling down he never considered Catherine as a potential spouse, instead got himself engaged to a rich little respectable hellcat. Catherine was heartbroken but hopeful, went to a fortune-teller to mend matters. Before she knew it Catherine had her faithless lover where she wanted him. Then, poor girl, she realized what it was to be loved more than enough; she more than half wished she had left spells and love-philtres alone. But she was brave, realistic; you will...
...Oliver Cromwell, married to a U. S. painter. She was "sent down" (expelled) from Somerville College, Oxford, for not working. She thinks men & women should go to separate universities.. With her husband and their two daughters, she lives in a Cotswold cottage near Stratford-on-Avon. A story-teller from infancy, Sylvia Thompson made up a story when she was four which her family still like better than anything she has written since. It ended: "And when she came around the corner, what do you think she saw? She saw the Fairy Queen and Queen Victoria sitting...