Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third week in November, 1929, he, aged 39 and having a wife and two children, lost his job. He had been earning $37.50 a week as clerk in the accounting department of a manufactory. He had put $1,413 in the savings bank, so he was equipped for a short layoff, and he had bought his last suit (for $32.50, at a sale) just two months before. He went home in November to his by-the-year lease apartment, cheered up his wife, chaffed the children. But he began earnestly to look for another position...
Died. Edward Cornelius Goodwin, 75, librarian since 1904 of the U. S. Senate, employe of the Senate since 1887 (secretary to the late Senator Hiscock of New York, then to the late Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, clerk of the Judiciary and Commerce Committees); of a paralytic stroke; in Washington...
...industrialist has compromised himself for the first time in his life with a young stenographer. The stenographer goes away with a clerk who, knowing himself about to die, is cheerfully spending his life's savings. As the curtain falls a prophetic doctor is still seated grimly in the lobby, the desk clerk is notified that his wife has finally had her baby, and a traveler comes in to occupy the room in which the killing took place...
Novelist, playwright, journalist extraordinary, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, is the most versatile, one of the most prolific living English writers. He has published over 50 books, more than a dozen plays. Born poor, he got little schooling, went to London at 21, became a solicitor's clerk. His first published piece was How a Bill of Costs is Drawn Up; his second appeared in the late great Yellow Book. Says he: ''I write for money." He makes a good income. Some of his books: Clayhanger (pr. "Clanger"), The Old Wives' Tale, Mr. Prohack, Riceyman Steps, The Grand Babylon Hotel, Milestones...
...Tunney claimed that he hired Mara to arrange the fight in New York and that Mara failed. But the private altercation was of small interest compared to the figures, publicly detailed for the first time, of how much money an important heavyweight makes. Tunney, who had been a shipping clerk at $18 a week in 1918, later a Marine private at $30 base pay a month, and still more recently a professional fighter glad to get a few hundred dollars for a fight, revealed his earnings...