Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Vice President Garner, in his capacity as President of the Senate, is in a mood for quick action, his methods are direct. Last week, as the clerk read each section of the Senate Finance Committee's 371-page, $5,000,000,000 1938 Tax Bill, Mr. Garner glanced down at Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, whacked his gavel on the desk, grunted: "Without objection, amendments agreed to. . . ." Five hours after the bill came up for debate Mr. Garner turned the chair over to Indiana's Minton, with a cheery comment: "We've passed 224 pages...
...Rockefeller fellow, joined the Institute at Princeton in 1936. In Cambridge he helped Physicist Max Born, another German exile (now at Edinburgh), in the formulation of a field theory which bridges modern Quantum Mechanics and the 19th-Century electro-magnetic wave equations of Scotland's brilliant James Clerk Maxwell (TIME, Sept...
...going to be killed-all,'' wailed Mr. Matthews' hotel chambermaid, after living through the first twelve air raids in barely 24 hours. A Barcelona drugstore clerk from whom Mr. Matthews was buying medicine for a headache, sighed: "Oh, for a plane to fly to France! I don't want...
...Heaven has as much violence and as much hard drinking as his earlier books. It has a typical O'Hara hero-a 35-year-old Hollywood writer who sports $35 shoes, $7.50 socks, a $2,200 automobile, and who is in love with a brisk little bookstore clerk. It has its murder, its two ambiguous strangers, its undercurrent of tension accompanying commonplace scenes like luncheons and parties. But all consequential happenings seem to take place off stage. Readers are told a good deal about the intoxications of Jim Malloy and Peggy Henderson, but not so much about their hangovers...
Died, Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, widest-read U. S. columnist (New York Day by Day, in 508 papers); four days before his 54th birthday, which would also have been his 30th wedding anniversary; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Successively hotel clerk, reporter, editor, press agent, free-lance columnist. O. O. Mclntyre wrote about Manhattan for village folk-for the people of Gallipolis, Ohio, his home town, among others-in fustian prose, sprinkled with fictional references to the great, first-hand description of accidents, nostalgic contrast of city and village. Sickly for years, he prowled Manhattan for material...