Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well might it have seemed so, for the nephew of the late mighty Railroader Edward Henry Harriman was no tuppenny personage. At the age of 16, he began his career as a bank clerk. The star of the Harrimans being in the ascendant, at 35 he became a vice president of the Merchants National. Meanwhile his uncle had tussled with Hill and his Cousin Anne had married William K. Vanderbilt. Young Joe became a person of at least social consequence. He married Augusta Barney of Jersey City Heights and like his cousins William Averell and Edward Roland Harriman...
...into H. R. 1491, "an act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking." So hastily had the bill been drawn up that no printed copies of it were yet available for members. Their only knowledge of what they were being asked to approve came from a clerk's sing-song reading of the lone text which still bore last-minute corrections scribbled in pencil. Chairman Steagall of the yet unorganized Banking & Currency Committee arose to explain to his bewildered colleagues how H. R. 1491 gave dictatorial banking power to the President, authorized impounding of all gold...
...making a bet by the pari-mutuel system, a better goes to one of a row of windows, states the amount of his bet and the name of his horse, pays his money to a clerk, receives in exchange a ticket recording the transaction which he can cash after the race if his horse wins. The clerk records the bet; during the race, the odds on each horse are determined with mathematical fairness in ratio to the amount of money bet on each...
...Adrienne Ames come as a harried young couple attempting to recoup purloined funds, closely tracked by Detective Jackson who is persuaded to content himself with shooting Crook Churchill. Jockey Eagles rides the good race for Shirley Grey. Nydia Westman and Donald Kerr are teamed as a talkative hotel clerk and telephone operator. The brighter moments are furnished by Jack Oakie as a radio announcer with an overpowering weakness for crooning at crucial moments, and Clarence Muse as a Negro bellhop...
...Manhattan, the manager of the Hotel Commodore sent a bellhop to a nearby church to exchange bills for silver from the collection plate. A clerk in a Schulte cigar store said he had enough change for a week. ''But, for God's sake don't mention it. . . . You'll have all the other Schulte managers sending for it." Rich folk entered automats, got 20 nickels, ate nothing. Change was plentiful in the subways. "We're taking the place of them banksters," boasted an Interborough boothman...