Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief Pay Clerk, U. S. Navy
...Passed the Rivers and Harbors Bill authorizing an expenditure of $70,000,000, after Senator Norris of Nebraska had broken the solemnity of debate by falling out of the clerk's chair. (Bill went to conference...
...Joseph J. Muir, Senate chaplain, gave the blessing. Deep-voiced John C. Crockett, reading clerk, was toastmaster. James D. Preston, genial superintendent the Senate press gallery, announced the arrival of the world's largest underslung pipe, six feet long, made of pasteboard. "What mal it smell so bad?" chirped an insolent page. Investigations reveal a copy of the "Senate Rules with Dawes' Amendments" (the amendments shot full of holes). From the bowl of the pasteboard pipe other gifts for the Vice President emanated...
...jurors returned to their attic room to balance the scales of justice. Various tales- have leaked out of what happened there. One thing is certain; ten of the jurors accepted the major arguments of the defense without coercion, while two of them, an educated man and a bank clerk who is studying law, doggedly dissented. For most of 19 hours they argued. "You can't tell me old man Doheny is a crook," said one juror. "Didn't these Navy men [onetime Secretary Denby and Captain John K. Robison, who lost the rank of Rear Admiral because...
...years old now, at his resignation. He likes to make a mystery of his age. But once, off guard, he remarked that he was 18 when he went to work for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, as a clerk and brakeman. That...