Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relentlessly the resolution to depose Leader Curry was read, and the vote taken. The clerk was almost half way down the list before a Curry vote was heard. When the outcome was inevitable, one tearful lady leader bawled: "I can't vote against Mr. Curry! He's been so good to me!" Her male chief released...
...declared that the Bishop had collected $65,300 for campaign purposes from Edwin C. Jameson, president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. (taken over last year by New York State's superintendent of insurance); that he and his secretary had reported Mr. Jameson's contribution to the Clerk of the House as only $17,300; that he had not only tried to conceal the amount of the contribution but had converted part of the money to his personal use-did not report it because he could not account for its spending. Next day the Bishop took a greater...
...foreign currency, preferably gold and silver, which Russia badly needs to buy goods abroad. But a foreigner may turn in his money at a Soviet bank or at Torgsin and get paper rubles and a booklet showing how many rubles he has bought. When he pays a Torgsin clerk with rubles he must present the booklet, have his ruble total marked down. Thus a Russian may not buy at a Torgsin store unless a relative abroad has sent him a money order through Torgsin. Nor may a foreigner use rubles bootlegged or earned in Russia. Founded in 1931, Torgsin last...
...when an automobile horn sings out "Tee-poo-pee-pa," it ought to mean something. Before the War only Kaiser Wilhelm's family cars were permitted to carry the polyphonic sirens that were known in the U. S. as Gabriel Horns.† When the Kaiser went, any little clerk with an automobile could speak with the four woodland notes of a Gabriel Horn. Last week the Nazis grabbed the Gabriel Horn for themselves. It was decreed that hereafter when an automobile toots "Tee-poo-pee-pa," it will mean that there goes one of Hitler's staff officers...
Neither Mr. Untermyer nor Mr. Pecora had reckoned on Senator Carter Glass, who was loth to see his ward, the Federal Reserve Board, in the role of margin clerk to the nation. Few days later the peppery little Virginia Senator marched into the Banking & Currency Committee, whose headlined sessions he is usually too busy to attend, and jammed through an amendment creating a separate stock exchange commission to administer the whole bill- just what President Whitney has been demanding. A thumping victory for the bill's opponents. Senator Glass's revolt cleared the way for thoroughgoing revision...