Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gentlemen, your agony is about over but mine has just begun," South Trimble, Clerk of the House, told newsman last week after he had announced his conclusion to make public Reconstruction Finance Corp. loans. The Relief Act of last July required the R. F. C. to report its loans to the House and Senate. Did this mean publicity? President Hoover thought not, said he had "assurances"' from Senate leaders that R. F. C. reports would be kept confidential. But Speaker Garner, who forced the report provision into the bill, was of a contrary mind. Besides. Senate leaders...
Died. Dr. Johann Schober, 57. twice Chancellor of Austria (1921-22, 1929-30); of heart disease; in Gutenbrunn, Austria. Beginning as a clerk in the police department Dr. Schober rose to the high office of head of the Austrian Federal police which position he retained until his death. For some years during the reign of Emperor Franz Josef he safe-guarded the security of visiting monarchs, met Edward VII of Great Britain from whom he learned English. Regarded as conservative, Schober was trusted and liked by the anti-Marxists, the nervous bourgeoisie and the Jews, especially during the years immediately...
...first in a group, then separately in Artist Stallknecht's studio. At the oars of the dory are two fishermen, deacons in the church. Prominently featured are Grocer L. Sidney Atwood, president of the church association, Insurance Man Augustus Bearse, vice president, and Restaurant Keeper Mrs. Emma Howes, clerk. Others: the Chatham electrician, auto dealer, carpenter, landscape gardener and their wives & children, some of them descendants of founders of Old Congregational Church...
...sitting in the grandstand. Three Finns who were particularly disappointed were the Jarvinen brothers, Matti, Karlo Werner and Akilles. They had often heard stories about the 1906 Olympics from their father, Werner Jarvinen, who won the Greek style discus throw that year at Athens. Matti Jarvinen, spectacled sporting-goods clerk of Davaro, won Finland its first event last week with another implement that old Werner Jarvinen had shown him how to handle. He threw the javelin 238 ft., 7 in., an Olympic record...
...Newark, N. J., a sporting goods clerk showed a customer a hunting rifle, watched him load the gun. The customer pointed the weapon at the clerk, demanded money...