Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was once a most shy bank clerk whom his associates called "Bunnie." He was a most efficient bank clerk with heavy spectacles, long, grey trousers, large nose, watery eyes, and a limp. All day long he sat at a high stool in Thread needle Street whisking a great quill pen over the interminable pages of a vast ledger. For years he had done this and he had done it well. And then a change came over Bunnie; he became less conscientious, more preoccupied and took to biting off the feathers on his quill. Love has touched him. Now this...
...months dragged on Bunnie became more and more preoccupied until at last his associates noticed it and twitted him. Once the head clerk severely scolded...
...Large, deep-voiced Edwin Sheddan Cunningham was born in Sevier County, Tenn. 64 years ago Once a mail clerk, he worked in a publishing house for a while, entered the Consular Service in 1898. He has remained in the Far East ever since, is now dean of foreign consuls in Shanghai, known even before the crisis as "the most difficult post in the consular service...
...great John Pierpont Morgan organized it in 1901. Comptroller since 1902, a director since 1920, a finance committeeman since 1922, he lives quietly in an apartment house on Manhattan's Park Ave., rides the subway to No. 71 Broadway every day. Known as the world's richest clerk, he has successfully fought publicity of any kind. The famed Filbert legend of aloofness was started many years ago by the late great Elbert Henry Gary. Said the Judge, "I have known Filbert-I mean Mr. Filbert-for 35 years as intimately as anybody could know such...
...personal attorney before the committee, Secretary Mellon chose a man even younger than Impeacher Patman. As a young clerk "Alex" Gregg entered the Treasury in 1920, became Solicitor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, retired in 1927. Last week Lawyer Gregg, now out in private practice, arose before the Judiciary Committee to defend his chief...