Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire Building. That was the end of Samuel Insull's power. Almost forgotten in the ensuing uproar was the fact that the same hands that rocked the boat of public trust had also rocked the cradle of electrical development in the Midwest. In 1879 Samuel Insull. a young clerk in London, read an advertisement in the Times for a part-time stenographer. He got a job with the London agent of Thomas Edison. Later Edison's chief engineer, E. H. Johnson, visited London. Like most Americans he was distressed at the British habit of working only in business...
...wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer's clerk, was growing rich...
That was in 1905. Next year the agent of a U. S. firm, reported to be the Guggenheims, appeared with an offer to buy the Salvadora mine, which Simon Patino had acquired from a Portuguese prospector in payment for a grocery bill-a deal which cost the clerk his store job. Patino wanted to sell but his wife did not. "We will go bankrupt with Salvadora," she cried, "or you will be el gran Mirador, the greatest of tin miners." Senor Patino climbed on his mule and went back to his mine...
...takes it upon himself to encourage a romance between a pretty acquaintance of his. Evelyn Venable, and his bashful bank clerk Kent Taylor. He accomplishes his purpose when he discovers the balking horse he has sold Miss Venuable can trot if coaxed by singing. After persuading kent Taylor to bet on the horse, he does his share on the singing end of it. While the plot is weak. Will Rogers makes David Harum an enjoyable evening...
Each layer last week had to employ a clerk to register bets, a cashier to pay winners, a runner to carry wagers from the clubhouse. To belong to the betting ring was expected to cost about $90 a day. Total bets on the opening day, in which the feature race was the Paumonok Handicap which Sgt. Byrne won at odds of 3-to-1, amounted to $500,000. Estimated revenue to the State at the end of the racing season in New York State...