Word: teller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women's shoe business last summer, Thomas Callahan had his son design some new flat-heeled models. Callahan, who leases the "debutante" shoe department in Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, Inc., got Philadelphia's Cellini Shoes, Inc. to make the shoes, plugged them in the Sunday New York Times. In two weeks, mail orders came in from every state in the union-except Montana. Mystified, Callahan ran the same ad in the New York Herald Tribune. Again the orders poured in; still no sales in Montana, which calls itself the "Bonanza State...
...chairman of his most potent company, Bankers Securities Corp., and came back fast. Through Securities Corp. he moved into control of City Stores, Loft Candy Corp., New York's Hearn Department Stores, Inc. retail chain, and a big minority interest in Walter Hoving's Hoving Corp. (Bonwit Teller, John David, Anson-Jones). Still one of the biggest U.S. real-estate operators and hotel owners, he was the prime mover in luring the 1948 Republican and Democratic conventions to Philadelphia, was grandiloquently dubbed "Mr. Philadelphia." He was a heavy contributor to the Truman campaign...
...Administration had to stave off one crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...Republicans' Joe Martin stepped across the aisle and whispered to Marcantonio. Vito got to his feet and demanded teller vote on his measure. Republicans stood as a man to support this demand, then filed down the aisle to be counted against the bill. Thus, angry and embarrassed Administration leaders were forced to make a public record of the fact that out & out reinstatement of labor's cherished Wagner Act was beaten by the House by an overwhelming 275 to 37 vote...
Railroad Hour (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Fortune Teller, with Patrice Munsel...