Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt appointed friendly, hard-working Career Man Clinton M. Hester, counsel to the Treasury Department and a frequent advocate of the Act during Congressional hearings. Born 43 years ago in Des Moines, Iowa, he has spent 20 years in Federal service, studying law at Georgetown while a Government clerk. His new job: to execute the Authority's orders...
Boss of all these jobs and thus of the town's livelihood is sleek, youngish Village Clerk Frank Indihar, who also has an insurance business. His brother, Anthony, is deputy village clerk and president of the Board of Education. Last week Minnesotans heard of strange doings in Gilbert...
...cheap, Mudgett rents a shack on a deserted beach, hoards his little store of paint and canvas, worries more about his money running out than he does about his painting. As Lindsay admirers could have guessed, the beach soon fills up with odd characters: a runaway bank clerk who sponges off Mudgett; a gin-drinking old harridan who spies on him; a tawny-haired, brown-legged girl named Cora, the old lady's granddaughter, who poses for Mudgett and inspires him to the best work he has done. Before long, peace-loving Mudgett is involved in as many complications...
...Getting off at Grand Central Station with no knowledge of the city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went to see McKitterick, asked for a job as a Melachrino salesman...
...local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager in Newport News, clerk in Manhattan, a two year stint in Bulgaria buying Turkish leaf tobacco. Thence he returned to Manhattan to work again for American Tobacco, later for Tobacco Products Corp., one of whose possessions was Melachrino. There he met Rube and Mac. In 1920 with his bride, a Boston girl named Rachel...