Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...championships at Chicago month ago, broke the world's record for the mile in 20:57.8. smashing the records for the 350, 1,100 and 1,320-yd. distances on his way. At 19, he now holds seven world and eleven U. S. records. Son of an Italian office clerk, Swimmer Medica likes spaghetti, milk, beer. Excessively lazy, he walks as little as possible on his way to and from practice, lies dozing beside the pool until called upon to swim. Like Miss McKean, he learned young, in Seattle's Green Lake. Last week, with Al Vande Weghe, 17-year...
After five hours the Bordens were turned loose and in pitch darkness struggled back along a lonely road toward Istanbul. By extreme good luck they met Adam Cieminsky, clerk of the U. S. Military Attaché at Istanbul, and from that instant things moved fast...
...Ernest Whitworth Marland. As a Pittsburgh law clerk he watched the Mellons found their fortune. In 1908 he emigrated to Oklahoma, struck oil on one Willie-Cries-For-War's land, piled up a $65,000,000 fortune, built Ponca City, married his ward when his wife died, gave his State Bryant Baker's "Pioneer Woman," and then went bankrupt. He always felt that he had been euchred out of control of his Marland Oil Co. by unscrupulous financiers and when in 1932 he was elected to Congress, he kept up a steady racket against "the wolves of Wall Street...
...twins and fiancé rushed under the Hudson River for a Newark, N. J. marriage license. City Clerk Harry S. Reichenstein expelled them, with: "Nothing doing! Moral reasons...
...years ago. Son of the U. S. Legation secretary, John O'Hara became private secretary to the U. S. Minister at 17. In 1906 he was making market surveys for the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce, in 1907 following his father to Santos, Brazil as consular clerk. Then he went back to the U. S. and entered Notre Dame...