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Diners Club International (DCI), founded as Diners Club, is a charge card company owned by Discover Financial Services.Formed in 1950 by Frank X. McNamara, Ralph Schneider (1909–1964), [3] Matty Simmons, and Alfred S. Bloomingdale, it was the first independent payment card company in the world, successfully establishing the financial card service of issuing travel and entertainment (T&E ...
Laci Denise Peterson (née Rocha; May 4, 1975 — circa December 24, 2002) was an American woman murdered by her husband, Scott Lee Peterson (born October 24, 1972), while eight months pregnant with their first child. On December 24, 2002, Scott reported Laci missing from their home in Modesto, California.
Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
But that’s exactly what happened to the Walnut Creek, California, woman: 35 credit cards, all in other people’s names, started to arrive in her mailbox while she was on vacation — each with ...
Alfred Schiffer Bloomingdale (April 15, 1916 – August 23, 1982) was an American businessman who launched the credit card business Dine and Sign, was chairman of Diners Club, and became known as "father of the credit card."
Marcus Binney, The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2002, ISBN 0340818409. (A fifth of the book is devoted to Krystyna Skarbek; includes a few more recently available documents, but largely draws on Madeleine Masson's work.)
Martin Gerald "Matty" Simmons [1] (October 3, 1926 – April 29, 2020) was an American film and television producer, newspaper reporter for the New York World-Telegram and Sun, and Executive Vice President of Diners Club, the first credit card company. [2]
They are sometimes called "prepaid credit card", but they are a debit card (prepaid card or prepaid debit card), [45] since no credit is offered by the card issuer: the cardholder spends money which has been "stored" via a prior deposit by the cardholder or someone else, such as a parent or employer.