Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...christened Alfred Renton Bridges. His father, an estate agent there, explains that his son was called Renton but "this name was a bit too much for his American Pals," who dubbed him Harry. At 17, after a sound schooling, Alfred Renton Bridges got a job as a clerk in a Melbourne firm called Sauls & McDougal, Ltd. It was his father's desire that his son eventually join him in business. But restless young Renton wanted to go to sea, and in the hope that he might be speedily discouraged, his father arranged with the skipper of a little ketch...
...oppose Great Britain's topflight Golfers Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham in the opening "Scotch foursome" (partners hitting alternate strokes) he thereupon picked not Tony Manero and Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champions for 1936 and 1937, but Byron Nelson, 25-year-old one-time Texas railroad clerk, and seasoned Ed Dudley...
Prophylactic teams, each composed of a specially trained doctor, a nurse and a clerk, will work under Dr. Armstrong's general supervision. They started in the South where infantile first breaks out each summer and will rapidly work north...
Married. Judge Thomas Francis ("Barney") Moran, 69, famed Reno divorce judge; to Mrs. Jessie M. Smith, longtime clerk of his court; in Reno. A grandmother, she gave her age as "over...
...bemoaned the fact that his "sobering statistics" show "that practically nothing of consequence has been accomplished by the members of the class in a quarter of a century. The Class has produced only one Bishop of Albania and in all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...