Word: cashiering
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...newspapers made much of the incident, and that day the directors of the Liberty Bank, happening to hold a meeting, decided they would like to employ him. So he became an assistant cashier. A year later, he was made cashier, three years later Vice President, and in another year more President?at age 32. The way he increased the bank's business was so marked that it soon had to move to larger quarters. Its lease had two years to run, and so Davison organized the Bankers' Trust Co. to fill the vacant quarters. Today it is the largest trust...
...Manhattan looking for a job, but did not find it, went on to Bridgeport, Conn., where he got a job as bank runner. He was promoted to bookkeeper, then teller. He heard of a new bank opening in Manhattan (the Astor Place Bank) and by sheer persistence worried its cashier into giving him a job. He was paying teller of that bank when he had his first experience with crime. A man came in with a check for $1,000 made out to God Almighty. He pointed a revolver at Davison's head and demanded the money. Davison read...
Meanwhile three others of the five carousers had held up the cashier and swept $10,000 into a little black bag. They started to flee through the now deserted mezzanine. "Texas," however, stopped to call on the house detective. The detective stuck a revolver out of his office door and fired, hitting the Cherokee in the shoulder. Then Texas joined the others in flight. His falling blood incarnadined the marble steps as he ran down. The other cowboy lost his way, ran into the kitchen and, after a little miscellaneous gunplay, was knocked on the head...
...Women. It is not often that this department grows actively angry and recommends sudden death. Men and Women is so bad that the Famous Players headsman ought to decapitate someone. It is the ancient tale of the honest bank cashier, temptation, stolen bonds...
James Simpson. He furnishes the funds. He, aged 50, is President and General Manager of Marshall Field & Co., great Chicago merchants. Born at Glasgow, he came to the U. S. at the age of six, had a brief education and, when he was 17, became a clerk in the cashier's office of Marshall Field & Co. Within a year the discerning Marshall Field had made him his confidential clerk. At Mr. Field's death, Simpson, then 32, became Second Vice President of the firm in association with such prominent men as Potter Palmer, Harlow N. Higinbotham, John G. Shedd, Henry...