Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention manager. Mr. Van Namee, a slightly bald, wholly businesslike,-most amiable Cornell graduate (Class of 1901), used to be Governor Smith's secretary. Before that, when Smith was Democratic leader and Speaker of the New York Assembly, Mr. Van Namee was his familiar and chief clerk. In 1920 and again in 1923, Governor Smith appointed him to the Public Service Commission. Than George R. Van Namee, Candidate Smith could have no friend more conversant with what it is about the Brown Derby, and under it, that wins votes...
...machinery of the New York Stock Exchange last week clamped down on the soul of a boy three years out of high school. Seymour N. Sears Jr., 22, of Grantwood, N. J., "floor" telephone clerk for Miller, Hewitt & Dodge, brokers, became a partner of that firm and at the same time a member of the Exchange (the youngest so distinguished). Seats on the Exchange are currently worth $395,000. Young men who "buy" them at such prices raise the money by bonding themselves and insuring their lives in favor of their creditors, and give private noi.es for the sum. Since...
...Patsy. King Vidor, director of The Big Parade, has more recently gone in for cinemastudies of the average U. S. inhabitant (or babbitt, as some prefer). His findings are two of the finest films of the year: The Crowd, tragic story of a Manhattan clerk and wife; The Patsy, funny episodes of a suburban family that spends Sunday tiring itself out by trying to rest...
...Lorimer listened, hand cupped to ear. Members jumped up to remonstrate with Mr. Schafer. Mr. Sproul of Illinois demanded that Mr. Schafer's words be stricken from the record. Mr. Schafer refused. A knot of members surrounded Mr. Schafer while his remarks were being transcribed by the clerk. Finally "to save time" Mr. Schafer withdrew what he had said...
Both men, before they became great in the world's oil industry, kept business accounts. Meyer at 22 (in 1886) found work as bookkeeper in the old Standard Oil's Boston office. Soon he became statistician. Deterding at 22 quit work as Chief Clerk in an Amsterdam bank to adventure in the Dutch East Indies, where he sold among a multitude of general items kerosene lamps. The East Indians who used those lamps filled them with Standard oil shipped in square cans from the U. S. Sumatra, Batavia, Borneo, Java and the rest of the archipelago were...