Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: Son of a lawyer and officer in the Confederate Army who was disfranchised and impoverished after the Civil War, William G. McAdoo was a messenger, clerk, handyman, worked his way during his three years at the University of Tennessee. While he was reading law in Chattanooga, he got into politics as an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1884. He cast his first vote for Grover Cleveland, was admitted to the bar just after his 21st birthday. More businessman than lawyer, he lost his shirt trying to electrify the Knoxville Street Railroad system, mortgaged...
...graduation only three of his classmates thought him "most likely to succeed." Having majored in English literature, Bill Martin had ideas of teaching, instead became a clerk in his father's bank at $67.50 a month. Thence he moved to the St. Louis firm of A. G. Edwards & Sons as a statistician, in 1931 was sent to Manhattan as its Exchange member. Immediately intrigued by the machinery of the Exchange, he often stood, mouth agape, watching speculation flow around him on the floor. Soon he was an expert at all phases of the market, could quote the capitalizations...
...Japanese by its inaccuracy. Frail and thinly armored Japanese river gunboats had apparently been able to support the attackers. In Hankow, 135 miles above Kiukiang. the flight of the whole civilian population into the interior was ordered and organized last week by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Most Government clerks and records had already been sent 650 miles further up river to Chungking. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui gave a farewell party to the press before he departed, followed by the envoys of the Great Powers. In most urgent terms U. S. Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson sent Chinese authorities...
...that it did not matter how much anyone paid for his stock so long as he was running the show. In 1929 the pyramid was shaken by the market crash. That it did not topple then was largely due to the resourcefulness and self-assurance of the cocky, onetime clerk from London, onetime private secretary to Thomas Edison, who went out and built a utility empire. He poured most of his own fortune (once estimated at $100,000,000) into the foundations of his doomed structure...
After hearing Dr. Card, the State Board of Education sent to Gilbert and other school districts of the State a rebuke for whimsical and discriminatory firing, the board scolded: "If we would not dismiss a hired hand from a farm or a clerk from a store without adequate cause, we must not expect to do so in the teaching profession and still get good teaching...