Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the U. S. made answer to the woman election clerk as he went to cast his ballot. Accompanied by wife and mother he had driven through a pouring rain to Hyde Park's town hall...
Grew prestige was not exactly of the kind to impress two-fisted President T. R. Roosevelt. Wires from Boston were pulled in vain. Joseph's efforts to be sent with Minister Edwin Morgan to Korea, then the hot spot Japan is today, landed him as a consular clerk in Cairo...
...office of the Riverside, Calif. County Clerk, Ellen Wilson McAdoo, 19, pretty, vivacious daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson, filed notice of intention to marry one Rafael Lopez de Onate, 38, occasional cinemactor and native of Manila. The crafty clerk took refuge in the California statute which forbids marriages between Caucasians and Filipinos. De Onate, he told them, must prove his claim that he is a full-blooded Spaniard. "Now all our plans are spoiled." lamented Ellen. "But," added Rafael Lopez de Onate, "that doesn't mean we have given up hope...
...break mildly annoyed the King. Snug in a rambling rented country house in Surrey, he has been bickering by cable for weeks with Siamese Premier Bahol, the rough & ready General who won the Second Revolution which has not dethroned Prajadhipok. If only someone at Singapore, probably a cable relay clerk, had not blabbed, His Majesty might have continued for months or years in languid Siamese fashion to treat with his obstreperous Premier...
Frederic W. Cook, Democrat. Age: 61. Experience: Somerville City Clerk for fifteen years; Secretary of State for fourteen years. As it is an administrative post, there are no campaign issues, he says. He stands on his record. Impartial estimate: efficient bureaucrat...