Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disabled World War veterans suffering from chronic diseases without positive proof that such diseases were acquired in the service. Her bill came up on the "consent calendar." (This calendar is composed of measures which it is thought may not arouse opposition. The bills are read by title by the Clerk. The Speaker asks whether there is objection to "present consideration." If there is one objection the bill goes over. If not, the bill is rattled off by one of the reading clerks and is passed without further...
...Clerk read the title of the bill ("H. R. 10772, a bill to amend the World War Veterans' Act of 1924"). Mrs. Rogers rose...
...chance that a railroad clerk or track laborer rises to be president of the system. It is not by chance that universities select the heads of their boards of trustees and the chairmen of their endowment-raising committees. It is not by chance that Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, now fills those two positions at Johns Hopkins University exactly as Howard Elliott, chairman of the Northern Pacific Railroad, fills them at Harvard University...
...Elmira, N. Y., one Fred Hannah, Negro, applied for a marriage license. While the clerk was filling out the forms he discovered that the bride had a husband, just then detained in prison. He refused the license. In two hours Mr. Hannah again applied for permission to get married...
...Good heavens, man," said the clerk, "has your fiancee got her divorce already...