Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help elect Herbert Hoover, but failed to report its political expenditures. Its officers reached into Congress and hired two U. S. employes as "Washington correspondents." They were Edward Nelson Dingley, 68, white-haired tariff expert on the payroll of the Senate Finance Committee; and Clayton Moore, clerk of the House Ways & Means Committee. Expert Dingley is the son of the late Nelson Dingley Jr., for 18 years a representative from Maine and chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee which framed the Tariff Act of 1897 that bears his name.* Clerk Moore is the son of Joseph Hampton Moore, onetime...
Last May the S. S. Excella entered New York harbor from Marseilles with her manifest showing, among other things, 54 casks of "flower pots." At the pier a man presented the original bills of lading for the shipment. A customs clerk picked out Casks No. 4, 30 and 53 for sample inspection. They were opened and, sure enough, they did contain flower pots. A crockery duty of $107.70 was assessed and paid on the whole consignment and away went the other 51 casks, first to a warehouse, then by truck out over Long Island roads to "The Braes," where they...
...Count Maxence de Polignac, member of one of France's oldest noble families who owns the Pommery & Greno caves at Rheims. (The Count, already indicted for smuggling with Go-Bart Co. is now in France under $25,000 bond [TIME, June 17].) By collusion with a customs clerk and three casks containing flower pots, the liquor shipment was put through the U. S. customs. When caught, Mr. Pratt was neither arrested by the agents nor required by Customs to pay the customary fine of $5 per bottle-a total of $14,400 in this case-for each bottle...
...Avory, in a voice dry as burnt toast, "of one of the most appalling frauds which ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country. I do not think there is much if any merit in your confessions which are nothing more or less than the threadbare plea of a clerk who robs his master and hopes to repay before his crime is discovered by backing winners at the races. Clarence Charles Hatry, I sentence you to 14 years in penal servitude...
...learned incongruity among his erudite colleagues is Edward Wilber Berry, degreeless dean of Johns Hopkins University. In 1890 he completed his academic education upon being graduated from the Passaic (N. J.) High School. Office boy, clerk, salesman, he became, by happenstance. President & Treasurer & Manager of the Passaic Daily News. In the evenings and on Sundays he played with his hobby, geology. In 1905 he helped settle a dispute about the classification of some clays near his home, formed a friendship with a Johns Hopkins geology Professor. He did some research for the university-and 24 years later became Dean...