Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business to transact, in the Royal Exchange, New York City, in 1790. That same year with the rest of the Government it was moved to Philadelphia where it occupied a back room on the second floor of City Hall. In 1800 it was transferred to Washington and assigned a clerk's office off the old Senate chamber in the unfinished Capitol. There John Marshall became Chief Justice. In 1810 the Court was put into the Capitol basement directly under the old Senate chamber. When in 1814 the Capitol was burned by the British, Supreme Court sessions were held...
...widespread suspicion existed that R. F. C. had made this accounting to the country to thwart further publication under the law of its month-to-month activities. When Clerk South Trimble of the House of Representatives released R. F. C.'s July report (TIME, Aug. 29). the corporation's directors were greatly dismayed. Late last month Chairman Atlee Pomerene submitted his August report to Clerk Trimble, begged him to hold it in confidence. "The publication of the July report," wrote Democrat Pomerene to Democrat Trimble, "caused serious embarrassment to a number of borrowers. It gave rise to much unjust criticism...
After a week's thought Clerk Trimble decided he had no legal choice in the matter. He released the August figures. July's publication, he found, "did not have the bad effect upon the banks as predicted...
...train at Turin. It was afternoon and they spent the night there, then went on to Milan. There they went to the office of a travel agency. "I am Samuel Insull," he said. "You know who I am?" He was perfectly casual, displayed a thick roll of banknotes. The clerk knew he was a U. S. utility tycoon whose fortune had been swept away. He did not know that Samuel Insull was under indictment in Chicago for larceny and embezzlement, that the U. S. State Department was spattering Europe with cables asking his whereabouts. The agent provided air transportation...
South Trimble (clerk of the House of Representatives...