Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rankin demanded a roll call and pleaded: "Do not shut the door of hope in the faces of those old men who fought World War I." As the ayes and nays of the final roll call droned on, the House was so tensely quiet that the click of the clerk's mechanical hand-counter was audible in the galleries. By a single vote, 208 to 207, the House had finally dredged up the courage to kill the bill...
...Moses Pendleton, a hulking Connecticut Yankee who had started with American Woolen in 1903 as a clerk, all this sounded like the bad old days. From 1925 to 1946, American Woolen made the goods for one out of every six men's suits in the U.S. But the wool industry, in general, was in a slump until the war years, and American paid no dividends on common stock. Then, as 10,000,000 ex-servicemen rushed to buy their first civvies, American Woolen found itself so prosperous that in 1946 it declared a $12 common dividend, saw its stock...
Thomas A. Dorgan, clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court and the first speaker in favor of the bill, promptly teed off against Harvard and Harvard men in general. He censured Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 for minimizing the danger of communist influence in this country in a speech before the Harvard Club of New Jersey...
Thomas A. Dorgan, clerk of Suffolk Superior Court, who earlier in the week challenged Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, on the latter's right to teach at Harvard, said last night that he will appear at the meeting...
...clerk of the Suffolk superior civil court thinks Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, should resign from the National Council of Arts, Sciences, and Professions...