Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justification offered for these practices is the 20th-century concept of war as a totalitarian affair. Under this theory a whole nation is mobilized. A factory worker, a government clerk, a physician becomes just as important a cog in the modern war machine as the soldier at the front. All are legitimate "military objectives...
Franklin Roosevelt's first job was as clerk in the Wall St. law offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, but that firm is prouder of the fact that in its 55 years as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange, it never lost a case. Neither fact, however, moved the Stock Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney...
...collection of pointed smoking-room jests. There was a fanciful yarn about India's long-delayed independence; the guess was that it might be coming via Imperial. Spicier was a tall tale about a woman who gave birth during a flight to India. Politely taxed by a flight clerk for boarding the plane in her condition, she became highly indignant. "I'll have you know," she replied hotly, "that when I got on this ship I was not pregnant...
Probably the most powerful single post in any U. S. Protestant church is that of Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. "Stated" or settled in his post, the Clerk nominally holds office for five years, but the terms of the last two, Rev. Dr. William H. Roberts and Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, totaled 56 years. At the annual Assemblies of the church, the Moderator (elected for one year) presides, but between times the Stated Clerk, resident in the "Presbyterian Vatican" in Philadelphia's musty old Witherspoon Building, directs the activities of the church...
...Machen has to some extent fallen." This was cautious praise. Dr. Rienk Bouke.Kuiper, 52, was a good friend of Dr. Machen. taught at Westminster Seminary which his friend founded, succeeded him as chairman of its faculty. Along with other Machenites, Moderator Kuiper last week viewed the election of Stated Clerk Pugh as proof that they had done well to leave the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Of church unity, toward which the larger Presbyterian Church seemed favorably disposed, he said stiffly: "This is no time for it. There ought to be more splits, in every denomination...