Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamilton, Bermuda, a pair of smiling pictures of the Duke & Duchess, tacked up by a newspaper counter clerk, Miss Evelyn Stovell, and captioned "They're Happy Now,'' so enraged the Rt. Rev. Arthur Heber Browne, 73, Anglican Bishop of Bermuda, that he tore them down, stalked out. Pursued to his home by Miss Stovell, who demanded her pictures back, the Bishop of Bermuda snapped: "I did not know that those pictures were the private property of Miss Stovell. ... It is disgraceful that they should have been in such a public place...
...State Department almost certainly established the identity of Mr. & Mrs. Donald L, Robinson, who recently disappeared in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 27), as a Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Arnold Rubens; further clarified the case by disclosing that New York's luckless County Clerk Albert Marinelli, who resigned from office month ago in the face of charges that members of his staff were ex-convicts, had issued the passports as a special kindness to a Mr. A, who had forwarded the applications as a political favor to a Mr. B, who obliged a Mr. C who had wanted to help...
...third and lower class hotel, Ball discovered that a Mr. Burgess was registered from Philadelphia as a representative of a firm in Cincinnati, where the law student lives. Ball was unable to find the lodger named Burgess, showed a picture to the clerk, who said it might be the man, since he hadn't seen him with...
...evening last week, as the clerk of the House of Representatives thus started to call the roll of members, a deathlike silence spread through the chambers, enveloped the normally chattering galleries. The House was voting on a motion to recommit the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill to the Labor Committee "for further study and revision." Judging from previous experience, most Congressmen felt that if the bill was sent back to committee, it would probably never reemerge. After five long weeks of fruitless wrangling, Congress was finally taking its first conclusive action on one of the four items which Franklin Roosevelt...
...roll call proceeded, Ayes and Noes seesawed so regularly that when the clerk reached the last name-Zimmerman of Missouri-almost nobody was sure who had won. Last of all the clerk called the Speaker, who is required to vote only in case of a tie. When Alabama's William Bankhead answered loudly "No!", there was a rattle of applause, then silence until the vote was counted. A few moments later, Speaker Bankhead announced the result of one of the sharpest legislative battles since the New Deal began. Said he: "Those voting Aye, 216; No, 198. The bill...