Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon found his way into a clerkship in the Department of State. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (then a confidential secretary to Secretary of State Gresham) picked him up as an able stenographer, then lost him when he went into the bureau of indexes and archives. By day, young Clerk Carr rummaged around among the dusty State documents with a wide-eyed, temperamental youth named Francois Jones who had worked in Paris; by night, the two became wrought up over the evil effects of politics on the diplomatic and consular services. Finally in 1895 they drew up a bill...
...convicted, put a fingerprint expert on the stand, asked him, for the sake of form, to identify Mr. Shapiro's fingerprints with Mr. Feit's. "Positively not the same," said the expert. The Judge ordered an acquittal. In the mind of the jurymen, the judges, the clerk, the counsel might have been the belief that this man, an arch criminal, had found a way to change the markings on the pads of his fingers. Honest Feit smiled, wrinkling the skin around his wart. He walked away a free...
...Mellon," said an election clerk in Pittsburgh, as she proudly handed him a ballot...
...duel.* The Presidential party halted at the farmhouse which President Madison had occupied in 1814 when the British captured Washington and burned the White House. At Fairfax courthouse they looked upon the wills of George and Martha Washington, read some reports of an early Virginia Grand Jury. The clerk of the court told them that George Washington had once been fined for "profane swearing." Mrs. Coolidge asked: "What was profane swearing'?" The clerk could not answer. So they climbed in their car again and proceeded to Oak Hill, the 2,000-acre estate of President Monroe. Here the President...
Alongside of the moneyed Anti-Saloon League, the finances of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment are mere elves, but they grow. Last week the Wet organization filed its report with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, announced receipts of $275,545 and expenditures of $215,070 from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1, 1926. The largest contributor was Edward S. Harkness of Manhattan, Director of the New York Central; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and many another railroad, son of the late famed oil magnate Stephen V. Harkness. Mr. Harkness gave $7,500 and loaned $2,500. His sister...