Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerk in a small general store in St. Joseph, Mich., A. Montgomery Ward learned from his farmer customers of the lack of good markets and of the difficulty experienced by producers in obtaining proper returns for their labor. Endeavoring to eliminate as far as possible the profits gained by the middleman, in 1872 he founded, with the help of George R. Thorne, the present mail-order house...
...same ballot are L. B. Johnson, Fred H. Johnson, Fred Johnson. Fred E. Ericson and Charles E. Ericson are Republican candi- dates for State Treasurer. John Curtis seeks to succeed John E. Curtiss as chair-man of the Railway Commission. In Omaha Robert Smith, to be renominated as clerk of the district court, must defeat Robert L. Smith...
Until last week what threatened to be the most baffling political choice for Nebraska voters was the candidacies of George W. Norris and George W. Norris for the Senatorial nomination. One Norris is the oldtime insurgent U. S. Senator. The other is a clerk in a chain grocery store at Broken Bow. Nebraska law required nominating petitions to be filed on or before July 3. Grocer Norris' petition arrived July 5. Secretary of State Marsh accepted it on the ground that it was in the mails on July...
...clerk was the late William Christian Paul, who until his death last January worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. by day, pored over books on rare oriental fabrics in his Bronx home by night. Out of his small salary, bit by bit, he spent between $30,000 and $40,000 for old Chinese court robes, Tibetan embroideries and similar textiles. This bequest to the Museum was his entire estate, was uncontested by his nephew, only heir. Last week Alan Priest, the Museum's Curator of Far Eastern art, said the fabrics were worth far more than Donor Paul...
...comrade managed to slip by the sentries into the Cathedral. Soon German shells began to burst in the ruined nave. Said his comrade: "It's not that I'm afraid, you understand, but I hate loud noises." On his return to Paris, Hero 'T' became successively clerk, bicyclist, male nurse; was often in trouble, sometimes in the guardhouse, oftener in the infirmary or some soft job. Says Author Deval: "A soldier may be as ignorant as he likes as to whether his heart is located on the left or the right . . . but what he must do. what is indispensable...