Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against. At 3:15, on the stormy morning of April 6, 1917, when the U. S. House of Representatives voted 373-to-50 to declare that a state of war existed with Germany, a memorable incident took place on the floor. As the clerk called the roll after a day of historic debate, the first woman Representative in U. S. history, and then the only woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin, sat silent in her seat instead of voting. Before the second roll call, Uncle Joe Cannon went to her side, begged her, as the Representative...
...hrer on the plea that the most sacred traditions of the Army and the celebrated Potsdam Code of officers' conduct had been flagrantly violated by the marriage of War Minister Field Marshal von Blomberg (TIME, Jan. 24). These extremely private nuptials occurred in a Berlin marriage clerk's office and the War Minister's witnesses were No. 1 Nazi Hitler, No. 2 Nazi Göring. Their presence was sufficient authority, so Blomberg appeared to have thought, for the match. But the generals snorted that not even a lieutenant would have been permitted to wed "socially impossible...
University of Minnesota Regent Pierce Butler (now an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court) picked up the telephone in his Minneapolis law office one September day in 1917, angrily demanded that University President Marion LeRoy Burton call the Board of Regents together at once. A young law clerk in Butler's office named Elmer Austin Benson pricked up his ears when he heard his chief shout the name "Schaper...
Broken-spirited, Schaper made a precarious living selling washing machines and the like, finally in 1925, when War hysteria had subsided, went to University of Oklahoma as professor of finance. But the incident rankled in the mind of Pierce Butler's young law clerk, Elmer Benson, as he marched up the political ladder. It still rankled when, 20 years later, the law clerk had become the Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota. Last week came the day he had been waiting...
Dreamer. Reno Stitely earned $2.300 a year as chief voucher clerk in the National Park Service of the Interior Department. One day in 1934 he had an inspiration. He created in his own imagination a whole CCC camp in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The Government had never dreamed of Mr. Stitely's camp but he gave it an imaginary supervisor and eight imaginary foremen. Then he made out payroll vouchers and sent them to the War Department, which pays all National Park Service employes who do conservation work. Unfortunately, he could not make up imaginary CCC boys...