Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tonight I am going to talk about . . . a political ally of thieves, pickpockets, thugs, dope peddlers and big-shot racketeers. Albert Marinelli, county clerk . . . powerful leader of half the Second Assembly District, dominates the whole. Tonight we turn on the spotlight...
...chauffeur, a notorious fugitive from justice named Charles Falci. It was as detailed and exciting a story as any other installment in the gangbusting radio series that had made Lawyer Dewey the saltiest campaigner in recent New York history. But hard-shelled Boss Marinelli, whose term as county clerk was due to expire January 1 anyway, neither resigned nor answered the Dewey charges...
...Dewey's Tammany targets expected that his campaign speeches would be forgotten after his resounding victory at the polls last month, they were soon disillusioned. Day after election, an organization christened as the "Joint Committee on the County Clerk" wrote Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman suggesting that if Mr. Marinelli was all that Mr. Dewey explicitly said he was, he was not fit to hold office even until January i. Democrat Lehman, often accused of an opportunistic friendliness for Tammany, asked Mr. Marinelli to answer the charges within a week. Shunning reporters both at his slum offices...
When not mayoring in the village, Jammy Schmidt serves as clerk of the Chamber of Deputies in Paris. To honor the wedding, local hunters formed a shotgun guard of honor, blazed away with both barrels as the happy couple left the town hall. The rest of the day they spent throwing percussion caps under the legs of terrified horses and cows, drinking free toasts...
That sort of thing was Horatio Alger justice, for Mr. Schulte has worked hard all his life. At 15 he started as a clerk in a Sixth Avenue drygoods store. Two years later he went to work as a cigar clerk for his brother-in-law. A partner at 25, he owned the firm and its five stores two years later in 1900. There were soon more stores and diligent Mr. Schulte, working hard in a dingy Manhattan office, paid less & less attention to tobacco, more & more to real estate. In 1926, which is the year Mr. Schulte...