Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander W. Gregg. Mr. Mellon has been accused of possessing many kinds of genius, and not the least of them is his ability to pick certain youths from among other youths, and lift them to fame. Mr. Gregg, son of a Democratic Congressman from Palestine, Tex., came as a clerk to the Treasury Department seven years ago. He plunged so deeply into tax lore that people began to refer to him as "that Texas tax wizard." When Secretary Mellon needed a wiseman to explain his tax reduction plan to Congressional committees in 1924, he called for Mr. Gregg and said...
...home there, and is always on hand for the colony's jubilees. The late "Uncle Joe" Cannon once called him the "Napoleon of Fraternity."* 'He knows nothing of golf, calls it an old man's game. 3) He went into politics. First he ran for town clerk of Elwood, Ind. His opponents, finding that his schooling consisted of one year, said that he was too ignorant for the office. Whereupon, he began to carry a blackboard with him when he made speeches and asked any schoolteacher present to give him an examination. He was the only Republican...
...real family name was Davies. His father, who could neither read nor write, signed X (his mark) on his citizenship papers; the registration clerk entered Davis. Davis has stuck...
...thronged, about 1,000 strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself the author of great advances in electrical communication, Dr. Pupin predicted the ultimate translation...
...little Tar Moorehead (so called to pacify Anderson relatives) discovered the great impersonal world of horses, rats, cows, sheep, and tried to join it by eating grass. He has never lost the sense of curiosity, wonder and cosmic humor experienced by little Tar when he saw the bald drug clerk and his lean wife cutting privy antics. He recalls Tar's first frights, shames, loves, possessions, just writing them down and then looking at them as Tar used to, stupidly perhaps but quite happily, saying, "Well, now. What to think of that?" The only sad note in Huck...