Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TOMORROW NEVER COMES-Robert L. Duffus-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50) In one of those pleasant South American republics where blood is hot and daggers sharp, Latin temperament turns law clerk into general, army-sergeant into dictator, dictator into corpse. Rafael, the law April 29, 1929 clerk, happened to be "nephew" to the canon of the cathedral. That was powerfully to his advantage; but his friendship for Sergeant Domingo, ancient soldier-philosopher, was to more immediate purpose. For Rafael had had the misfortune to fall in love with Vitoria of the mellifluous eyes, Vitoria whom General Hernandez had marked...
...House, called to order by Clerk William Tyler Page, promptly chose Nicholas Longworth as its Speaker for a third time. With 267 members in the majority and 163 in the minority, Republican Congressmen overflowed their side of the chamber. The air bumbled and rumbled with greetings and good cheer...
...Fate permitted him to die. For 46 years he had been beaten by life. His first love, and his last and real love had died. He had lost his devoted mother. He had a permanent quarrel with his brother. He had had financial collapse, humiliating work as a government clerk at small pay in the department of woods and forests-worst of all, lack of recognition for his music. Final blow: his life-child, the opera Boris Godonnov, tragic and powerful story of a guilty Tsar, a work loved by the people, rejected by the critics, had been taken...
Died. Aurelius B. Hinds, 84, of Portland, Me., inventor and onetime manufacturer of toilet preparations (Hinds Honey & Almond Cream, etc.) now made by Lehn & Fink Products Co. of Manhattan; of pneumonia; aboard the S.S. Samaria, in the Mediterranean. Mr. Hinds was once clerk in a Portland drug store where, later, Cinemactor Lew Cody jerked sodas...
Familiar is the figure of the executive who has worked up from office boy or shipping clerk, whose leadership of a company has resulted from long familiarity with all its twists and turns. Less familiar, but recently much in vogue, is what might be termed the Professional Executive. His distinguishing characteristic is the fact that he becomes president of a company not because of what he knows about the company but because of what he knows about being a president. He is in the business of running things, and what he runs is a subordinate factor in the situation. Thus...