Word: clerking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last March one Ben Kerr, postoffice clerk of Gary, Ind. went to an American Legion meeting, introduced a resolution to cash the Soldier Bonus.* In May Clerk Kerr was discharged because of "political activities" forbidden by the civil service law and "contrary to the expressed wish of the President who considers [Bonus] legislation harmful to the country at this time." Last week President Hoover heard about Clerk Kerr's dismissal. He talked the case over at length with his Cabinet. Then he wrote to Postmaster General Brown: "I have never made any such suggestion as to this...
...Clerk Kerr, who now has another job. hesitated about re-entering the postal service even at the invitation of the President...
...City Hall 20 minutes later newsmen were handed the following from the Mayor to the City Clerk: "I hereby re sign as Mayor of the City of New York, the resignation to take effect immediately...
...State Edward J. Flynn, Bronx boss and Roosevelt supporter. In 1925 he was first elected to head the Board of Aldermen. In 1929 he was re-elected with more votes than even Mayor Walker. Once he nearly broke up a Board of Estimate meeting by correcting a Tammany clerk who persisted in reading a petition for the Goethe Society as if it were spelled "goat." Mayor McKee is married, has two sons, spends his summers at Mamaroneck. To Broadway and its night life he is unknown. He does not smoke, drink, wisecrack. He golfs in the 90's. Modest...
Strings of 100, common enough in other events, are almost unheard of in the Grand American. When Arthur E. Sheffield, railway postal clerk of Dixon. Ill., firing from 21 yd., broke 98 out of 100 last week he felt fairly confident about it. An experienced trapshooter but hitherto unfamed, he started shooting in 1912, gave it up in disgust at his inefficiency in 1917, started to shoot again four years ago. Last year he won his first big tournament, the Illinois State Handicap. Last week, after waiting for several other shooters who knew his posted score to crack when they...