Word: clerk
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...gave up his job with the Parker Fountain Pen Co. in Janesville, Wis. to go to Washington as a clerk in the Treasury Department. In his spare time he learned shorthand, Spanish, the law. In 1916 he emerged from bureaucratic anonymity as assistant secretary of the Fine Arts Commission. A year later he took on a position as first secretary of the Public Building Commission...
CIRCUIT COURT 1-Air. Justice Joseph W. Cox presiding; R. E. Lee Goff, clerk. No. 79326. Frank E. Bonner vs. Washington Times Co.; trial resumed and cause given to jury; verdict for plaintiff for $45,000. Attys., John W. Guider, Edmund L. Jones, Frank J. Hogan-William E. Leahy, Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatman...
...Dayton a Spanish War veteran who had been drawing $60 per month was removed from the pension rolls, ushered out of the National Military Home. At midnight he called on Col. Vernon Roberts, the Home's chief medical officer, shot him dead. ¶ In Washington an aged clerk was turned out of the Senate. He took poison, cut his throat. ¶ In Philadelphia an ex-Army captain wrote to President Roosevelt: "Suicide is the only way I can provide for those dependent on me, by making available to them the miserable balance due me on my adjusted compensation certificate...
...famous, Robert Joseph Cuddihy.* Drs. Funk and Wagnall, classmates at Wittenberg College, Ohio and both ordained Lutheran ministers, started business in 1876 in Manhattan, publishing for ministers books, pictures, and the Homiletic Review. A 16-year-old Catholic boy, Robert Cuddihy, came to them and got a job as clerk. Except for a porter, he was the only employe. The new boy worked so well that when the doctors started the Digest in 1890 he was told to "go ahead and make it go." Shrewd, tremendously energetic, and guided by such homely maxims as "Keeping everlastingly at it . . ." Manager Cuddihy...
...National Advertisers), and Third Son William M. Bristol Jr. as secretary. ¶Dr. Porter's Drug Store in Greensboro, N. C. gave the world two famous things. Behind its prescription counter labored a druggist named Lunsford Richardson, William Sidney Porter (nephew of Dr. Porter ) was one of his clerks. Clerk Porter soon went forth into the world and produced short-stories under the nom de plume O. Henry. The late Druggist Richardson remained behind the counter for 17 years and being a dyspeptic gentleman who with just cause abhorred ipecac (then the common remedy for colds), invented a Magic...