Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the War both Democrats and Republicans elected him to the 66th Congress. Then he began to kick up his heels in earnest. He adhered to no party, ran with Democrats, Republicans, Sons of the Wild Jackass, Farmer Laborites, at will. On "Calendar Wednesdays," when his colleagues left the clerk of the House to drone away hundreds of petty little bills to keep the folks back home happy, LaGuardia was usually pres-ent to object to the more flagrant bits of logrolling. He made Prohibitionist William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw's life a burden, advocated $150,000,000 enforcement...
...treasurer of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, longtime president of the Boys' Club of New York, husband of smart, vivacious Repealist Pauline Morton Sabin; of cerebral hemorrhage, after long illness; in Shinnecock Hills, L. I. His varied, steady-climbing banking career began when he, a flour mill clerk, was given a job by an Albany bank so he could pitch for its baseball team. France and Belgium decorated him for his Liberty Loan work. An ardent golfer, he was treasurer of the U. S. Golf Association...
...Kemp, a member of the provincial archives staff, said he and his family sighted the beast last year, but kept it a secret for fear of not being believed. When Major W. H. Langley, clerk of British Columbia's Legislature, told last week of having seen the beast too, Archivist Kemp told his story as follows...
...president and sole owner is Henry Herbermann, 55, a hard, dark chunk of a man who began life as a tough waterfront youngster in Pennsylvania R. R.'s Jersey City yards, rose to be chief clerk, went into the trucking business, moved a whole German U-boat into Manhattan's Central Park for Liberty Loan speeches, bought up the shipless Export company in 1920 for $65,000. His friends now include Egyptian royalty, from whose stables he has acquired fine Arabian horseflesh (see cut). An older, even more valuable friend, with whom for years he has played poker...
...Lardner, 48, fictionist, playwright, sportswriter; of heart disease and tuberculosis; in "No Visitors, N.Y.," his home at East Hampton, L. I. Born in Niles, Mich., packed off to engineering college by his parents, he failed every course but rhetoric, did no better as a freight agent and gas company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle contempt for the people...