Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haggle over Louisiana's petty politics, Senator James Couzens of Michigan one day last week cut with a staccato demand: "Mr. President, I desire unanimous consent to take up, out of order, Senate Joint Resolution 256. It is of considerable importance." The Senate gave its consent. The reading clerk unintelligibly rattled out the contents of S. J. R. 256 and two minutes later, without debate or even notation by drowsy newshawks, it was unanimously passed...
...vote, taken alphabetically in French, began with a clerk's piping cry "Union Sud-Africaine !" and the gruff reply from that British dominion...
Ferdinand Pecora, most brilliant lawyer of Italian extraction in the U. S., finished public schools at 12. At 18, after loping through his brother's law books, he was managing clerk of a law firm. Even on the most complex cases (which he, tireless, likes best) he never needs notes, never forgets a word of testimony once it is on the record. One of his most famed convictions was that of former New York State Superintendent of Banks Frank H. Warder for his part in the failure of Manhattan's City Trust...
...Author, in spite of his knowing look and loss of hair, is only 28. After graduation from high school in Chicago he worked at various jobs besides dishwashing: factory hand, salesman, jewelry clerk, songwriter, night shift at the post office. The last job he took to find out "where the hell I was heading for. . . . The dead flow of days and nights finally straightened me out and on the day I was notified I was about to be promoted to a regular clerkship with increased wages, I resigned right away and left town the next morning." Since then...
Kentucky's Barkley demanded a roll call. Not until the clerk reached "Borah" was the first "no" recorded. Packed in the galleries, professional Prohibitors gazed down at the scene like stone images. At last Vice President Curtis intoned...