Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover spent evenings poring over a newspaper made especially for him. It was compiled by Clerk John McCabe, who had gathered together a vast assortment of press clippings on the pending Tariff and Farm Relief Bills, pasted them in large scrap books. The President was disturbed to find that 90% of the press sentiment was against the House's Tariff handiwork. Around Washington sped the gossip that he would veto the Tariff Bill unless the Senate altered it to conform more nearly to popular desires...
...President, his packing, his sailing. He had telegraphed to London asking the exact space allowance for bookcases in the U. S. Embassy, had promptly received statistics. Needing a private secretary, he had offered the diplomatic opportunity to rugged Nephew Henry Dawes. one year out of Williams College, oil company clerk in Columbus, Ohio. Nephew Dawes had promptly, diplomatically accepted. Promptest of all was Oxford University, which was to make Ambassador Dawes a Doctor of Civil Law almost immediately on his arrival. Simultaneously receiving the same degree would be Spanish Ambassador Alfonso Merry del Val, brother of the urbane and genial...
...last week the double doors of the Senate Chamber opposite the Vice President's dais swung open to admit Alney Earle Chaffee. Slender, thin-haired, smiling behind his pince-nez, Mr. Chaffee is a Reading Clerk of the House. Vice President Curtis banged his gavel at Clerk Chaffee's appearance. Silence fell over the Senate. A Senate attendant announced in a loud voice: "Mr. President, a message from the House of Representatives...
...Clerk Chaffee took one step forward, bowed from the waist to Vice President Curtis, read from a document...
...President, the House of Representatives has passed House Bill 2667 ... in which the concurrence of the Senate is requested." Thereupon Clerk Chaffee passed his document over to the Senate attendant, bowed again from the waist, smiled, backed out of the door...