Word: teller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the Patman bill came to a vote in the House last week, the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition had its way in a teller unrecorded vote. Down & out went major clauses the Administration wanted most: 1) allocation of $600,000,000 for subsidies, 2) price ceilings on existing homes...
...nosed, Hungarian-born Edward Teller had just returned to Chicago from the Los Alamos Laboratory. The situation there, said Teller, was "catastrophic." Only a handful of scientists remained, and they would leave too unless the Army made drastic changes. The bomb had certainly upset his life, he said. "All of a sudden I found myself changed to a person who criticized everything...
...Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria hotel, some 2,000 foreign traders last week were told a fact of postwar life that old China hands already knew. The teller was Clarence Edward Gauss, ex-ambassador to China. Said Mr. Gauss: "China has emerged from the war a fully sovereign state. The vexatious issues relating to special foreign privileges existing in China under the old 'unequal' treaties having been swept away, we must enter upon our postwar trade relations on a new basis...
...Paul C. Thurston, president of Maine's Rumford Falls Trust Co., a blue and grey bank-on-wheels. Thurston will do a roving banking business within a go-mile radius of his Rumford Falls bank. The 23-ft. trailer is equipped with a cashier's counter, a teller's cage, a private office, and a stout safe...
...line popped into my mind: A bunch of the boys were whooping it up, and it stuck there." That night, in the teller's cage of the bank, Service wrote his famed Shooting of Dan McGrew aided by the bank guard who fired at him, under the impression that he was a burglar...