Word: teller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basil Robert McAllister, a wispy, stoop-shouldered Bronx bank teller, first fell in love with Finland at the New York World's Fair, in 1939. He visited the Finnish Pavilion on his days off, met and liked the Finns who worked there. A bachelor, he joined a Finnish club in Manhattan, went to dinners and dances there. When the fair ended, he began to correspond with his Finnish friends who had returned home. Said he: "The Finns are very straightforward and honest and dependable. They agree with me and I agree with them...
...intrigue, inspired by a gypsy prophecy, which helped make Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Czar of Bulgaria. Before his birth his mother, Princess Clementine of Bourbon-Orleans, daughter of France's Louis Philippe, consulted a gypsy fortune teller who told her that, though she had lived as the daughter of an uncrowned monarch, she would die the mother of a crowned one. Much of the rest of her life was spent shopping for a crown, and training Ferdinand to wear it. As part of that training she placed him in the Austrian hussars, where...
...bank's manager walked up, Fox pulled out his pistol and said: "I want all the money-and I'm not fooling." He kept the manager covered while a woman teller scooped $8,155 in currency into a canvas bag and brought it to him. He backed to the door, walked out, made a getaway...
...load of Aberdeen Angus heifers to Chicago, got $39.25 a hundred pounds, the highest price per hundred pounds ever paid for heifers on the open market. Ohioans told a story about a farmer who took a bucketful of money to the bank to pay off an $8,000 mortgage.The teller emptied it, said: "There's $10,000 here." Said the farmer: "I must have brought the wrong bucket...
Hoving was expanding by shrewd use of his capital-$2.6 million from such bigwig friends as Vincent Astor and CBS's William S. Paley, and a $12 million stock issue. He had paid $10.5 million for Bonwit Teller, Inc., then sold the store's buildings to the Equitable Life Assurance Society for $6.3 million and rented them back for $320,000 a year. He put some of that money into a new $2.2 million Chicago branch which he sold to Prudential Insurance Co. of America, and leased back. Another $800,000 was spent transforming Boston's historic...