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...pretty one, Rebecca Bradley, aged 22, had been missing two days. He ordered an inquiry. Later in the day the village of Buda, near Austin, was agog. A pretty girl, after hanging around the Farmers' National Bank all morning, had whipped out an automatic pistol, backed the cashier and bookkeeper into the vault, grabbed $1,000 in bills and fled in her waiting coupé. That night, on identification of the bank employes, the Buda sheriff had Governor-elect Dan Moody's stenographer in custody. Public opinion was more perplexed than outraged. At the University of Texas, where...
Died. William Henry Porter, 65, "systematizing genius" of J. P. Morgan. & Co. and the director of its open market operations; in Brooklyn, N. Y., of heart disease, while walking with his wife. At 25 he was the youngest cashier in a major U. S. bank (Chase National). It was he who stimulated the trade acceptance, or bill, market in the U. S., whereby a merchant with time paper on his hands could easily discount it at a bank. He was taken into Morgan partnership in 1911, simultaneously with Thomas William Lamont...
...eminence rather than bringing spectacular fortunes out of other fields. Thus Chairman Pierson of the new combine worked for the Hanover National for 13 years before joining the N. Y. National Exchange (later the Irving Trust) as a clerk. Mr. Clarke was 12 years (1889-1901) in becoming assistant cashier of the American Exchange National though he was to succeed his father, Dumont Clarke, as president in 1910. President-elect Ward went straight from Yale to a bottom-level job with the Irving Trust, his rise to the presidency in 18 years (1901-19) being accounted exceptionally rapid...
...fetid air, stale perfumes; the shouldering, stupid, perspiring women who just want to know "how much this is"; clerks who indicate, by a sad shake of the head, that the English language is a closed book to them. Other customers, less bloody-minded, merely dream of saying to the cashier when they pay for a 30c purchase, "Oh, by the way, how much is this store worth?" . . . "About $16,000,000 a year." . . . "Here's my check. Wrap the place up. Ill take it home with me." Just this, with a little more formality, is what Gimbel Bros...
...Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call him "America's Foremost Patron of tre Arts." Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier in a bank in Carlsruhe, Germany, later Vice President of a German bank in London, he came to the U.S. during the panic of 1893, took a job as clerk, and in a few years was helping E. H. Harriman rehabilitate the Union Pacific...