Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snoop. She demanded the resignation of Atlanta's Warden John W. Snook "because of utter want of administrative ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken, reticent, diligently eludes publicity. But Mrs. Willebrandt, busily though she snooped, got nothing done about cattle-herding in the Federal prisons...
...Osceola, Ind., George Gulp and Harold Kirkpatrick each got 34 votes for town clerk & treasurer. They called upon a pair of dice to decide the will of the people. The dice chose Gulp...
...page boy took the paper from his hand and carried it fluttering to the rostrum where a clerk righted it and intoned...
...breach between father and son gradually widens until John finally leaves his ancestral home to go north and work in Detroit as a bank clerk is merely the vehicle for the steady development of an atmosphere, which is obviously the author's chief excuse for writing the book. He accomplishes his end well, however, for the reader is left a real understanding of a class of people in the south which is often written about but seldom presented in such a sympathic and clear form...
...officers: president, H. S. Thompson '99; vice-president, A. W. Scott '09; clerk (secretary), Walter Humphreys; treasurer, J. L. Taylor...